[PATCH v4 09/13] powerpc/pseries: Add papr-vpd character driver for VPD retrieval

Nathan Lynch nathanl at linux.ibm.com
Wed Nov 29 13:41:43 AEDT 2023


Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au> writes:

> Nathan Lynch via B4 Relay <devnull+nathanl.linux.ibm.com at kernel.org>
> writes:
>> From: Nathan Lynch <nathanl at linux.ibm.com>
>>
>> PowerVM LPARs may retrieve Vital Product Data (VPD) for system
>> components using the ibm,get-vpd RTAS function.
> ...
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
>> index 4ea5b837399a..a950545bf7cd 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
>> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
>> @@ -349,6 +349,8 @@ Code  Seq#    Include File                                           Comments
>>                                                                       <mailto:vgo at ratio.de>
>>  0xB1  00-1F                                                          PPPoX
>>                                                                       <mailto:mostrows at styx.uwaterloo.ca>
>> +0xB2  00     arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/papr-vpd.h                powerpc/pseries VPD API
>> +                                                                     <mailto:linuxppc-dev>
>  
> This hunk should probably go in the previous patch.

The papr-sysparm driver (patch 11/13 "powerpc/pseries/papr-sysparm:
Expose character device to user space") also adds a line to
ioctl-number.rst. Are you saying all the additions to ioctl-number.rst
should be contained in a single patch?


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