Re: [PATCH v10 0/6] Raspberry Pi Sense HAT driver

[Matthias Brugger <mbrugger@suse.com>]

On 23/08/2022 19:41, Charles Mirabile wrote:
> This patch series adds a set of drivers for operating the Sense HAT
> peripheral device. This board is an add on for the Raspberry Pi that is
> designed to connect using the GPIO connector and communicate via I2C.
> 
> It features:
> 	- a joystick
> 	- an 8x8 RGB LED matrix display
> 	- a whole bunch of environmental sensors with their own drivers
> 	  (those are already in upstream Linux)
> 
> This is a refactor of the work of Serge Schneider, the author of a
> version of this driver that is currently in the Raspberry Pi downstream
> kernel. We modified his code to make it suitable for upstream Linux.
> 
> A couple of tests are available for the driver in the test folder in
> this repo: https://github.com/underground-software/sensehat.git
> 	- sensehat_joystick_test logs the input events from the
> 	  joystick to the console
> 	- sensehat_display_test displays various solid colors on
> 	  the LED panel.
> 	- full_sensehat_test displays a single lit cell that can be
> 	  moved with the joystick. Pressing the joystick ends the
> 	  program.
> 
> For more information about the Sense HAT, visit:
> https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/sense-hat/
> 
> Changes since v9:
> 	- The driver for the sensehat joystick was accepted upstream so
> 	  it is no longer included in this patchset.
> 	- Some of the people involved in the development of earlier
> 	  versions of these patches are no longer involved in the project
> 	  so they have been removed from the list of maintainers and the
> 	  patches.

I'd would expect the patches to honor their involvement in the past, but if they 
are fine from being dropped, I will not object...

Regards,
Matthias

> 	- The code is completely unchanged and so based on the discussions
> 	  from version 9 of the patches, it should be ready to be merged.
> 
> My appologies for the long delay between v9 and v10 especially given the
> fact that there are no changes to the code. We appreciate the maintainers'
> patience and guidance throughout all 10 versions of this sensehat patchset,
> and we are excited for this driver to hopefully be fully accepted.
> 
> Best - Charlie
> 
> Co-developed-by: Joel Slebodnick <jslebodn@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Slebodnick <jslebodn@redhat.com>
> Co-developed-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz <jsavitz@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Charles Mirabile <cmirabil@redhat.com>
> 
> Charles Mirabile (5):
>    drivers/mfd: sensehat: Add Raspberry Pi Sense HAT to simple_mfd_i2c
>    drivers/auxdisplay: sensehat: Raspberry Pi Sense HAT display driver
>    dt-bindings: mfd: sensehat: Add Raspberry Pi Sense HAT schema
>    MAINTAINERS: Add sensehat driver authors to MAINTAINERS
>    DO NOT MERGE: full sensehat device tree overlay for raspberry pi 4
> 
>   .../raspberrypi,sensehat-display.yaml         |  26 +++
>   .../input/raspberrypi,sensehat-joystick.yaml  |  31 +++
>   .../bindings/mfd/raspberrypi,sensehat.yaml    |  57 +++++
>   MAINTAINERS                                   |  10 +
>   drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig                    |   8 +
>   drivers/auxdisplay/Makefile                   |   1 +
>   drivers/auxdisplay/sensehat-display.c         | 205 ++++++++++++++++++
>   drivers/mfd/simple-mfd-i2c.c                  |   1 +
>   sensehat.dtbs                                 |  52 +++++
>   9 files changed, 391 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/raspberrypi,sensehat-display.yaml
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/raspberrypi,sensehat-joystick.yaml
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/raspberrypi,sensehat.yaml
>   create mode 100644 drivers/auxdisplay/sensehat-display.c
>   create mode 100644 sensehat.dtbs
>