Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mfd: add support for Diolan DLN-2 devices

From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org,
	gnurou@gmail.com, wsa@the-dreams.de, sameo@linux.intel.com,
	arnd@arndb.de, daniel.baluta@intel.com,
	laurentiu.palcu@intel.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] mfd: add support for Diolan DLN-2 devices
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:46:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140917154653.GF30918@lee--X1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140917091001.GF20727@localhost>

On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Johan Hovold wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:24:44PM +0300, Octavian Purdila wrote:
> > This patch implements the USB part of the Diolan USB-I2C/SPI/GPIO
> > Master Adapter DLN-2. Details about the device can be found here:
> > 
> > https://www.diolan.com/i2c/i2c_interface.html.
> > 
> > Information about the USB protocol can be found in the Programmer's
> > Reference Manual [1], see section 1.7.
> > 
> > Because the hardware has a single transmit endpoint and a single
> > receive endpoint the communication between the various DLN2 drivers
> > and the hardware will be muxed/demuxed by this driver.
> > 
> > Each DLN2 module will be identified by the handle field within the DLN2
> > message header. If a DLN2 module issues multiple commands in parallel
> > they will be identified by the echo counter field in the message header.
> > 
> > The DLN2 modules can use the dln2_transfer() function to issue a
> > command and wait for its response. They can also register a callback
> > that is going to be called when a specific event id is generated by
> > the device (e.g. GPIO interrupts). The device uses handle 0 for
> > sending events.
> > 
> > [1] https://www.diolan.com/downloads/dln-api-manual.pdf
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/mfd/Kconfig      |   9 +
> >  drivers/mfd/Makefile     |   1 +
> >  drivers/mfd/dln2.c       | 681 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/mfd/dln2.h |  71 +++++
> >  4 files changed, 762 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/mfd/dln2.c
> >  create mode 100644 include/linux/mfd/dln2.h

[...]

> Unless anyone suggests otherwise (e.g. to stick with auto id), I'll add
> a helper function for this and fix up those two drivers.

Appreciated.

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