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From: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Zaidman <michael.zaidman@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@kernel.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@kernel.org>,
	Germain Hebert <germain.hebert@ca.abb.com>, Rio Liu <rio@r26.me>,
	Bruno Giacomazzi <brunoceg1@gmail.com>,
	Christina Quast <contact@christina-quast.de>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] HID: ft260: add UART and GPIO support, plus I2C fixes
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:27:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260827132718.GK770273@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD++jL=DZnKeSUu7TrC1uFn83eUu=WAFh5FGiVkO=oT3DZ6yzQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 25 Aug 2026, Linus Walleij wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> 
> thanks for your patch!
> 
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2026 at 11:40 PM Michael Zaidman
> <michael.zaidman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Mainline supports only the FT260's I2C bridge. This series adds the
> > UART/TTY interface and GPIO on top of it, and carries the I2C fixes made
> > alongside them - two years of out-of-tree work [1], now replayed upstream.
> (...)
> >   HID: ft260: add serial driver
> (...)
> >   HID: ft260: add GPIO support on top of UART
> 
> This comment isn't pertaining to this one device in particular.
> 
> I'm not a HID maintainer but this trend to make HID devices spawn
> serial and GPIO devices sort of turns HID into the new MFD, but
> I suppose Jiri and Lee has discussed this phenomenon in the past?

What is this?  4 device drivers in one, shoved into HID?  Each
component; HID, I2C, GPIO, UART, should live in its respective
subsystem, surely?

-- 
Lee Jones

  reply	other threads:[~2026-08-27 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-22 21:39 [PATCH 00/13] HID: ft260: add UART and GPIO support, plus I2C fixes Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 01/13] HID: ft260: add serial driver Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 22:00   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-25  7:49   ` Linus Walleij
2026-08-25  8:12   ` Linus Walleij
2026-08-27 19:16     ` Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 02/13] HID: ft260: uart: bring-up fixes Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:56   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 03/13] HID: ft260: add GPIO support on top of UART Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:56   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-25  7:44   ` Linus Walleij
2026-08-27 20:39     ` Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 04/13] HID: ft260: i2c: reduce driver module loading time Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:51   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 05/13] HID: ft260: i2c: silence sysfs store big-numbers Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:51   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 06/13] HID: ft260: i2c: reduce bus-error message severity Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:52   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 07/13] HID: ft260: uart: enable flow control Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:52   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 08/13] HID: ft260: uart: add modem pins control via ioctl Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:54   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-25  8:08   ` Linus Walleij
2026-08-27 22:08     ` Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 09/13] HID: ft260: gpio: group sysfs attrs per HID interface Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:54   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-25  8:13   ` Linus Walleij
2026-08-27 20:50     ` Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 10/13] HID: ft260: uart: fix active-low RTS/CTS/DTR/DSR polarity Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 22:03   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-25  8:16   ` Linus Walleij
2026-08-27 21:08     ` Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 11/13] HID: ft260: i2c: fix large write transaction failure Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 22:02   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 12/13] HID: ft260: workaround for TN_189 errata endpoint STALL after enumeration Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 22:03   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-22 21:39 ` [PATCH 13/13] HID: ft260: i2c: abort in-flight transfers with STOP before reset Michael Zaidman
2026-08-22 22:12   ` sashiko-bot
2026-08-25  8:21 ` [PATCH 00/13] HID: ft260: add UART and GPIO support, plus I2C fixes Linus Walleij
2026-08-27 13:27   ` Lee Jones [this message]
2026-08-27 18:53     ` Michael Zaidman
2026-08-27 20:51       ` Lee Jones
2026-08-27 22:25         ` Michael Zaidman

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