From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (lindbergh.monkeyblade.net [23.128.96.19]) (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 8A885443A for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:36:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay4-d.mail.gandi.net (relay4-d.mail.gandi.net [IPv6:2001:4b98:dc4:8::224]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA9E010F3; Mon, 7 Aug 2023 07:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B7938E0008; Mon, 7 Aug 2023 14:36:27 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bootlin.com; s=gm1; t=1691418990; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=CoovJrYPxkDFGogd5wvVhZC1R5Dq4lKn3YHaDGn4/LM=; b=HmQ6EWLUrDj97BUk7IGsXLcmAJ2miJvyMgaSQlOietWT5pvqGoMYmO6yr+Bhc0Lx67tKD6 df7Z6+KBom37uNEQWfw8FJht1ZSI3QWLiHNjcNXBmvIwSynDxYMQivLHbJtb7uzGw5pJZ2 EAinCJbElQ6rO13JeWO3s9sPGU4+27Q8M5T52pS7PcbF+R8WyuQKAjhFeLCmKcp+6TWkuR IdO0UMWLzMibIMpfP4ahj/zKwHCDxTgVc0R059ZGQaSUIC06o5hsPMQ2XYgtkWYBNaUzS4 qP1VmAe+U2gpEDS1hmzhbhx0eTbGq6h1G2uNh4GG0oC80TOYZeIgosi77P7S8A== Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 16:36:26 +0200 From: Herve Codina To: Andrew Lunn Cc: Linus Walleij , "David S. Miller" , Eric Dumazet , Jakub Kicinski , Paolo Abeni , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Conor Dooley , Lee Jones , Qiang Zhao , Li Yang , Liam Girdwood , Mark Brown , Jaroslav Kysela , Takashi Iwai , Shengjiu Wang , Xiubo Li , Fabio Estevam , Nicolin Chen , Christophe Leroy , Randy Dunlap , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Thomas Petazzoni Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 24/28] pinctrl: Add support for the Lantic PEF2256 pinmux Message-ID: <20230807163626.79a5ca7b@bootlin.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20230726150225.483464-1-herve.codina@bootlin.com> <20230726150225.483464-25-herve.codina@bootlin.com> Organization: Bootlin X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.1.1 (GTK 3.24.38; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-GND-Sasl: herve.codina@bootlin.com X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_BLOCKED, SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on lindbergh.monkeyblade.net Hi Linus, Andrew, On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 15:17:11 +0200 Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 03:06:42PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 3:05 PM Linus Walleij wrote: > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Herve Codina > > > > > > So it is a bridge chip? Please use that terminology since Linux > > > DRM often talks about bridges. > > > > Replying to self: no it's not a bridge, it's a WAN thingy. > > > > So perhaps write that this is a WAN interface adapter chip. > > Hi Linus > > In the E1/T1/J1 world, framer is a well understood concept. Maybe the > text needs a bit more background information to explain what this is > to somebody who does not have an old school telecoms background. > > Andrew Maybe I can add in my commit log: --- 8< --- This kind of component can be found in old telecommunication system. It was used to digital transmission of many simultaneous telephone calls by time-division multiplexing. Also using HDLC protocol, WAN networks can be reached through the framer. --- 8< --- Do you think it will be better ? Regards, Hervé Codina -- Hervé Codina, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com