Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] misc: Add mikroBUS driver

Vaishnav M A
2024-03-15T21:20:26Z

Hi Ayush,

On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 12:19 AM Ayush Singh <ayushdevel1325@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> MikroBUS is an open standard developed by MikroElektronika for connecting
> add-on boards to microcontrollers or microprocessors. It essentially
> allows you to easily expand the functionality of your main boards using
> these add-on boards.
>
> This patchset adds mikroBUS as a Linux bus type and provides a driver to
> parse, and flash mikroBUS manifest and register the mikroBUS board.
>

As Russel had provided the feedback, this patchset does not add support
for mikrobus, but a subset of mikrobus add-on boards which have a
1-wire click ID EEPROM with an identifier blob that is similar to the greybus
manifest. This series lacks the necessary context and details to the
specifications that is implemented.

https://www.mikroe.com/clickid - you should atleast point to this specs.

> The v1 and v2 of this patchset was submitted by Vaishnav M A back in
> 2020. This patchset also includes changes made over the years as part of
> BeagleBoards kernel.
>
> Link: https://www.mikroe.com/mikrobus
> Link: https://docs.beagleboard.org/latest/boards/beagleplay/
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200818124815.11029-1-vaishnav@beagleboard.org/ Patch v2
>

Thank you for making the effort to upstream this, arriving at the
latest revision of the public available click ID hardware took almost 2-3 years
and I could not personally keep up with upstreaming, my sincere apologies to
the maintainers that provided feedback on the earlier revisions. I hope an
updated version of this series lands upstream with your work as the efforts
made at BeagleBoard.org Foundation makes development simpler by adding
plug and play support to these add-on boards. Also this series mentions only
the case where mikroBUS port is present physically on the board, but there
can be mikroBUS ports appearing over greybus and that is the reason why
greybus manifest was chose as descriptor format - the series needs to
describe these details so that a reviewer has the necessary information
to review your patches. A link to beagleconnect is also helpful to reviewers.

https://docs.beagleboard.org/latest/projects/beagleconnect/index.html

> Changes in v3:
> - Use phandle instead of busname for spi
> - Use spi board info for registering new device
> - Convert dt bindings to yaml
> - Add support for clickID
> - Code cleanup and style changes
> - Additions required to spi, serdev, w1 and regulator subsystems
>
> Changes in v2:
> - support for adding mikroBUS ports from DT overlays,
> - remove debug sysFS interface for adding mikrobus ports,
> - consider extended pin usage/deviations from mikrobus standard
> specifications
> - use greybus CPort protocol enum instead of new protocol enums
> - Fix cases of wrong indentation, ignoring return values, freeing allocated
> resources in case of errors and other style suggestions in v1 review.
>
> Ayush Singh (7):

It looks like the version you have sent is very similar to the
version I had previously updated for Beagleboard git with
only rebases and cleanup, but I don't see major functional
changes. I request you give credit to the original author
atleast as a Co-author with Co-developed by tag, As there
there was a significant amount of work done by myself to
come up with this specs and get everything working on close
to 150 mikrobus add-on boards on physical mikroBUS ports
and over greybus:
https://github.com/vaishnavachath/manifesto/tree/mikrobusv3/manifests

The driver today is poorly written and was one of the first
Linux kernel development work I did while I was still in college
so I might have made a lot of blunders and just rebasing and
reposting will not get this to an acceptable state, here is what
I would recommend:

* Drop all the unnecessary changes in the mikroBUS driver to
support fixed-regulators, fixed-clocks, serdev device .etc and
implement minimal changes to support the mikroBUS clickid
devices.

* Provide necessary justification to why the particular descriptor
format (greybus manifest) is chosen, with pull request to manifesto
and greybus-specification.
https://github.com/projectara/greybus-spec
and similar to : https://github.com/projectara/manifesto/pull/2

* Move the mikrobus W1 driver to w1/ subsytem, it is a standard
W1 EEPROM driver (also a standard part with updated family code)
* Keep a RFC series of changes where mikroBUS ports can appear over
greybus to justify why the identifier format needs to be extended greybus
manifest.

> dt-bindings: misc: Add mikrobus-connector
> w1: Add w1_find_master_device

Dependent patches that goes to different subsytems should
be sent first separately to avoid confusion and then your series
should mention the necessary dependencies. (same for
spi).

> spi: Make of_find_spi_controller_by_node() available
> regulator: fixed-helper: export regulator_register_always_on
> greybus: Add mikroBUS manifest types
> mikrobus: Add mikrobus driver
> dts: ti: k3-am625-beagleplay: Add mikroBUS

Send this patch as DONOTMERGE till your bindings are
accepted.

>
> Vaishnav M A (1):
> serdev: add of_ helper to get serdev controller
>
Drop this from initial series,
I will provide further feedback from my TI e-mail,
Vaishnav Achath <vaishnav.a@ti.com>

Thank again for taking this up,

Thanks and Regards,
Vaishnav

> .../bindings/misc/mikrobus-connector.yaml | 110 ++
> MAINTAINERS | 7 +
> .../arm64/boot/dts/ti/k3-am625-beagleplay.dts | 76 +-
> drivers/misc/Kconfig | 1 +
> drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/misc/mikrobus/Kconfig | 19 +
> drivers/misc/mikrobus/Makefile | 6 +
> drivers/misc/mikrobus/mikrobus_core.c | 942 ++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/misc/mikrobus/mikrobus_core.h | 201 ++++
> drivers/misc/mikrobus/mikrobus_id.c | 229 +++++
> drivers/misc/mikrobus/mikrobus_manifest.c | 502 ++++++++++
> drivers/misc/mikrobus/mikrobus_manifest.h | 20 +
> drivers/regulator/fixed-helper.c | 1 +
> drivers/spi/spi.c | 206 ++--
> drivers/tty/serdev/core.c | 19 +
> drivers/w1/w1.c | 6 +-
> drivers/w1/w1_int.c | 27 +
> include/linux/greybus/greybus_manifest.h | 49 +
> include/linux/serdev.h | 4 +
> include/linux/spi/spi.h | 4 +
> include/linux/w1.h | 1 +
> 21 files changed, 2318 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/mikrobus-connector.yaml
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mikrobus/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mikrobus/Makefile
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mikrobus/mikrobus_core.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mikrobus/mikrobus_core.h
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mikrobus/mikrobus_id.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mikrobus/mikrobus_manifest.c
> create mode 100644 drivers/misc/mikrobus/mikrobus_manifest.h
>
>
> base-commit: 61996c073c9b070922ad3a36c981ca6ddbea19a5
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> 2.44.0
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