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Re: [V5, 3/3] powerpc/drivers: Add driver for operator panel on FSP machines

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On Wed, 2016-29-06 at 03:38:39 UTC, Suraj Jitindar Singh wrote:
> Implement new character device driver to allow access from user space
> to the operator panel display present on IBM Power Systems machines
> with FSPs.
> 
> This will allow status information to be presented on the display which
> is visible to a user.
> 
> The driver implements a character buffer which a user can read/write
> by accessing the device (/dev/op_panel). This buffer is then displayed on
> the operator panel display. Any attempt to write past the last character
> position will have no effect and attempts to write more characters than
> the size of the display will be truncated. The device may only be accessed
> by a single process at a time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/43a1dd9b5fc64184e578ac1570

cheers

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[PATCH V5 3/3] powerpc/drivers: Add driver for operator panel on FSP machines Suraj Jitindar Singh <sjitindarsingh@gmail.com> - 2016-06-29 06:00 +0200
  Re: [V5, 3/3] powerpc/drivers: Add driver for operator panel on FSP machines Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> - 2016-06-30 14:40 +0200

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