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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linus.walleij@linaro.org,
	gnurou@gmail.com, wsa@the-dreams.de, sameo@linux.intel.com,
	arnd@arndb.de, johan@kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, daniel.baluta@intel.com,
	laurentiu.palcu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: add support for Diolan DLN-2 devices
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:37:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140901083744.GE7374@lee--X1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1409349654-24841-2-git-send-email-octavian.purdila@intel.com>

On Sat, 30 Aug 2014, Octavian Purdila wrote:

> This patch implements the USB part of the Diolan USB-I2C/SPI/GPIO
> Master Adapter DLN-2. Details about the device can be found here:
> 
> https://www.diolan.com/i2c/i2c_interface.html.
> 
> Information about the USB protocol can be found in the Programmer's
> Reference Manual [1], see section 1.7.
> 
> Because the hardware has a single transmit endpoint and a single
> receive endpoint the communication between the various DLN2 drivers
> and the hardware will be muxed/demuxed by this driver.
> 
> Each DLN2 module will be identified by the handle field within the DLN2
> message header. If a DLN2 module issues multiple commands in parallel
> they will be identified by the echo counter field in the message header.
> 
> The DLN2 modules can use the dln2_transfer() function to issue a
> command and wait for its response. They can also register a callback
> that is going to be called when a specific event id is generated by
> the device (e.g. GPIO interrupts). The device uses handle 0 for
> sending events.
> 
> [1] https://www.diolan.com/downloads/dln-api-manual.pdf

MFD is not a dumping ground for misfit h/w.  Almost all of this code
looks like it belongs in drivers/usb.  Please move it there.

-- 
Lee Jones
Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-01  8:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-29 22:00 [PATCH v2 0/3] mfd: add support for Diolan DLN-2 Octavian Purdila
2014-08-29 22:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: add support for Diolan DLN-2 devices Octavian Purdila
2014-09-01  8:37   ` Lee Jones [this message]
2014-09-01  9:05     ` Octavian Purdila
2014-09-01  9:51       ` Lee Jones
2014-09-01 10:22         ` Octavian Purdila
2014-09-01 11:39           ` Lee Jones
2014-09-01 14:55             ` Octavian Purdila
2014-09-01 15:46               ` Lee Jones
2014-09-01 16:22                 ` Octavian Purdila
2014-09-01 17:54                   ` Johan Hovold
2014-09-02  8:00                     ` Lee Jones
2014-09-02  8:45                       ` Octavian Purdila
2014-09-02 15:23                         ` Johan Hovold
2014-09-03 13:39                           ` Octavian Purdila
2014-09-03 15:37                             ` Johan Hovold
2014-09-02 15:07                       ` Johan Hovold
2014-08-29 22:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] i2c: add support for Diolan DLN-2 USB-I2C adapter Octavian Purdila
2014-08-29 22:00 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] gpio: add support for the Diolan DLN-2 USB GPIO driver Octavian Purdila
2014-09-04 16:32   ` Linus Walleij

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