Re: [PATCH v7] usb:serial:pl2303: add GPIOs interface on PL2303

[Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:05:36AM +0800, Wang YanQing wrote:
> Hi Johan Hovold.
> 
> Another two questions.
> 	
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 04:46:25PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > 
> > > +	int (*gpio_startup)(struct usb_serial *serial);
> > > +	void (*gpio_release)(struct usb_serial *serial);
> > 
> > This isn't the right place for this abstraction. Most of the setup code
> > would be common for any device type with GPIOs.
> 
> I assume you mean any pl2303 variant, not any device type, because
> no device in drivers/gpio has common setup code except many of them
> use struct gpio_chip.

Yes, pl2303 type/variant. Specifically, much of the setup code will be
identical even if say the number of gpio differ (2 or 4) depending on
type.

> > Just keep the generic gpio_startup and release from v6, and verify that
> > ngpio > 0. Any further abstraction should only be added once we know how
> > the other types handles GPIOs.
> 
> Instead of assume code works for all situation firstly,  test and write
> code for only one type device, and make code become generic when we find
> it works for others' type.
> 
> I don't known which way is better.

Add support for your device type (HXA). We should verify that it also
works for the non-end-of-life HXD, or we might need to find a way to
detect those two different types of HX and limit it to HXA for now.

If and when someone reverse-engineers a device type with a different
protocol for dealing with GPIOs, that's when you add further abstraction.

> Thanks very much for your patient review !!

You're welcome.

Johan