Re: Re [PATCH v11 0/4] Firmware Support for USB-HID Devices and CP2112

[Willie Thai <wthai@nvidia.com>]

>> Hi Danny,
>> 
>> I hope this message finds you well.
>> Thank you for the patch set — it’s exactly what we need for the I2C-over-USB feature in our new products.
>> Could you please let us know when we can expect the next version of the patch set?
>> If you've paused work on it, we're happy to take over and continue from where you left off.
>> 
>> Thanks!
>
> Thanks for reaching out!
>
> Apologies, I haven't been working on this in a while, and have only been able
> to intermittently return to attempt to bring it forward.
>
> Feel free to take over and move this forward! I'm not sure what the protocol
> is for that, as far as changelogs and versions and whatnot. If your product's
> timeline for needing this mainlined is not urgent; however, I can prioritize
> coming back to this and having a v12 submitted, likely by the end of next
> week, to remove the overhead needed for you to assume ownership of the
> patchset.
>
> The last several versions of this patchset have all revolved around trying
> to get this change working for ACPI as well as DeviceTree in such a way which
> make the ACPI and DeviceTree interface/binding acceptable to their respective
> maintainers. With this latest version, it seemed that there was not going to
> be any consensus between the two firmware languages, so it seemed an entirely
> different binding/interface and corresponding logic in the device driver
> would be needed. This seems unfortunate, as it seemed the whole purpose of
> the fwnode / device_*() functions was to unify the driver interface to the
> firmware language used... but this is presumably a special case, being almost
> exclusively a device composed of different generic device functions...
>
> Let me know if you plan to take this over and if there's any
> documentation/context/test procedures you would need from me; else I would be
> happy to start moving this forward again now that there is someone waiting
> on it.
>
> Thanks
> 
> Danny Kaehn

Hi Danny,

Thanks for your response !
Currently, your patch is working fine with our feature without ACPI.
We can use it downstream first.
Please let me know if you need any support !

Thanks !