MicroSemi Switchtec management interface driver
authorLogan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Tue, 7 Mar 2017 00:30:54 +0000 (18:30 -0600)
committerBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Tue, 7 Mar 2017 00:33:34 +0000 (18:33 -0600)
commit080b47def5e5e28b2509c5bb92160d1df730f27b
tree72a20cad07f6cad6ddd437af46616fd53e0f78c5
parentc1ae3cfa0e89fa1a7ecc4c99031f5e9ae99d9201
MicroSemi Switchtec management interface driver

Microsemi's "Switchtec" line of PCI switch devices is already well
supported by the kernel with standard PCI switch drivers.  However, the
Switchtec device advertises a special management endpoint with a separate
PCI function address and class code.  This endpoint enables some additional
functionality which includes:

 * Packet and Byte Counters
 * Switch Firmware Upgrades
 * Event and Error logs
 * Querying port link status
 * Custom user firmware commands

Add a switchtec kernel module which provides PCI driver that exposes a char
device.  The char device provides userspace access to this interface
through read, write and (optionally) poll calls.

A userspace tool and library which utilizes this interface is available
at [1].  This tool takes inspiration (and borrows some code) from
nvme-cli [2].  The tool is largely complete at this time but additional
features may be added in the future.

[1] https://github.com/sbates130272/switchtec-user
[2] https://github.com/linux-nvme/nvme-cli

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>: don't invert error codes]
[Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>: fix
switchtec_dev_open() error handling]
Tested-by: Krishna Dhulipala <krishnad@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Logan Gunthorpe <logang@deltatee.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Bates <stephen.bates@microsemi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Wei Zhang <wzhang@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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drivers/pci/Kconfig
drivers/pci/Makefile
drivers/pci/switch/Kconfig [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/pci/switch/Makefile [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/pci/switch/switchtec.c [new file with mode: 0644]