Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] serial: 8250_exar: Clean up the driver

[Parker Newman <parker@finest.io>]

On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 17:24:44 +0300
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 09:51:41AM -0400, Parker Newman wrote:
> > On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 15:46:51 +0300
> > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 02:33:03PM -0400, Parker Newman wrote:
> > > > On Fri,  3 May 2024 20:15:52 +0300
> > > > Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > After a rework for CONNTECH was done, the driver may need a bit of
> > > > > love in order to become less verbose (in terms of indentation and
> > > > > code duplication) and hence easier to read.
> > > > >
> > > > > This clean up series fixes a couple of (not so critical) issues and
> > > > > cleans up the recently added code. No functional change indented by
> > > > > the cleaning up part.
> > > > >
> > > > > Parker, please test this and give your formal Tested-by tag
> > > > > (you may do it by replying to this message if all patches are
> > > > >  successfully tested; more details about tags are available in
> > > > >  the Submitting Patches documentation).
> > > >
> > > > I was able to test the Connect Tech related code and everything is
> > > > work as expected. I can't test the non-CTI related changes but they
> > > > are pretty minor.
> > > >
> > > > Tested-by: Parker Newman <pnewman@connecttech.com>
> > >
> > > Sorry for blast from the past, but I have some instersting information
> > > for you. We now have spi-gpio and 93c46 eeprom drivers available to be
> > > used from others via software nodes, can you consider updating your code
> > > to replace custom bitbanging along with r/w ops by the instantiating the
> > > respective drivers?
> >
> > Hi Andy,
> > The Exar UARTs don't actually use MPIO/GPIO for the EEPROM.
> > They have a dedicated "EEPROM interface" which is accessed by the
> > REGB (0x8E) register. It is a very simple bit-bang interface though,
> > one bit per signal.
> >
> > I guess in theory I could either add  GPIO wrapper to toggle these bits
> > and use the spi-gpio driver but I am not sure if that really improves things?
> > Maybe using the spi-bitbang driver directly is more appropriate?
> > What do you think?
>
> Yes, spi-bitbang seems better in this case.
>

I will try to make some time to implement this... Or if someone else from the
community wants to take this on in the mean time I am certainly happy to test
and help out!
Parker