From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5AFD84746D5; Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1787837256; cv=none; b=biKW+JfzDbDmXMpzLA8mnnbgzeouJuxwjHA/clxDD25W2ilRB0DLSAFALJeysb4jUEPxeIcbEnuX/yXG660oqOAZldZev50ZcHc6EdwoVxm8d9v/9oZz8bNrRG39sBnlBBrjUkxrL2SdrGVuCyUpoB6Jh9J/mvliNe3oimpASA0= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1787837256; c=relaxed/simple; bh=HjKVzbx0ka2ysw5tJK5V1jc6iPgys042GFj8Xu8Z4ZU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=ki3iLpEFSG6sqib5ovQ2cpeVcW5koptmmna842haq5FUaI5ssr/wLRWpwWyp5w3tEvL9fok/V67ZQPfIH2/KV2QdRk4/36H9bo9ufyP+XK3436/uHEXqGFeQIO35lgEPmQDlqnsJZ0k9tRM43UgONgjSBA+/lh/n47i8sG5wxUw= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=aGAfIwmt; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="aGAfIwmt" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B23AF1F000E9; Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:27:21 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=kernel.org; s=k20260515; t=1787837244; bh=2hBO9m0vTd/jCO9LU/z38lMIHBJ+dYBt/6htURH1XbA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=aGAfIwmtuk9++SPdW6FRgTgug2ia1wvEzaHSv1xBVBVCmb5RWlJlK3peSPAFgR9ZY cVf2XWDqZrLsihSFF3LzFIeZSKMoOuyJPlQ9UT6vSRBCUP5FyDOpu7rDivLrAI2o9w lDHz6X5Oqg9V+8Uo5amRdFqoyLtrO9ysxljH97jfKEdXWLnq44ttmWYVE4KHAWhXkY DPTSExS7FJwzNkjOz0hrEIZY/9c9nWLOeKty0gen/iKiiTQ4Roa5DhxAQubSXsf4Xj yKNsKpCBBT+KYhksv32RQdZZ9ZzZuGZ5ZSXLcRmoZNJXpdO/MOS7XeQP1riJZRuHY0 9Qtq8iZTZiwTA== Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:27:18 +0100 From: Lee Jones To: Linus Walleij Cc: Michael Zaidman , Jiri Kosina , Benjamin Tissoires , Bartosz Golaszewski , Germain Hebert , Rio Liu , Bruno Giacomazzi , Christina Quast , 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 Message-ID: <20260827132718.GK770273@google.com> References: <20260822213941.98882-1-michael.zaidman@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-input@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: 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 > 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