From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753779AbaFBBs6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2014 21:48:58 -0400 Received: from donald.hachti.de ([188.40.85.216]:49935 "EHLO donald.hachti.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753681AbaFBBs5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jun 2014 21:48:57 -0400 Message-ID: <538BD805.5040306@hachti.de> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 03:48:53 +0200 From: Philipp Hachtmann User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: jhovold@gmail.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] usb/ftdi_sio: Add support for setting CBUS pins on FT232H References: <1401579066-8298-1-git-send-email-hachti@hachti.de> <1401579066-8298-3-git-send-email-hachti@hachti.de> <20140601000059.27360.qmail@stuge.se> <538A7063.8010205@hachti.de> <20140601023106.GA4961@kroah.com> <538BCC03.3090606@hachti.de> <20140602013839.GA831@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20140602013839.GA831@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02.06.2014 03:38, Greg KH wrote: >> Yes but... I should have avoided the term "GPIO".> No, you used the right term :) Sorry for using the right term :) > No, I am not going to add custom ioctls to a single driver for this. I did neither request nor expect that - did it sound that way? > It would not be lost at all, you can see that relationship in sysfs > between the gpio device and the tty device, they are both attached to > the same "parent" usb interface. Ok, I understand. This is a real argument for the GPIO stuff. I'm just beginning to understand that using the GPIO stuff will make everyone happy. > This comes up every 6 months or so, you aren't the first to ask for > custom ioctls / sysfs files for this chip. But no one seems to want to > to do the work to make it a proper gpio device, which is sad :( Ok, ok. I will do it but it will take some time. I will resend my two patches then. Kind regards Philipp