On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 03:22:48AM +0530, Vaishnav M A wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 8:54 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 06:18:12PM +0530, Vaishnav M A wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > This Patch series is an update to the mikroBUS driver > > > RFC v1 Patch : https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/24/518 . > > > > Please use lore.kernel.org for links, we have no idea if lkml.org will > > be working tomorrow or not :) > > > Hi Greg, > > Thanks, will use lore.kernel.org for the links, attaching the corresponding > link to the v1 RFC patch thread for reference: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200724120637.GA427284@vaishnav-VirtualBox/ > > > > The mikrobus driver is updated to add mikrobus ports from device-tree > > > overlays, the debug interfaces for adding mikrobus ports through sysFS > > > is removed, and the driver considers the extended usage of mikrobus > > > port pins from their standard purposes. > > > > I don't know what "properties" and "device" mean with regards to things > > here, any chance you can provide a patch to the greybus spec itself that > > adds this information so we can better understand the reasoning here to > > see if the kernel changes match up with the goals? > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > Sure, I will add a patch to the greybus-spec to describe the new descriptors, > the property and device descriptors are introduced to add information > about the SPI/I2C/UART chip/sensor which is required by the corresponding > device drivers, With these descriptors, it will be possible to describe devices > on I2C, SPI, UART, etc. behind a greybus device so as to bind existing kernel > drivers to them, This is not what is currently being done within the mikroBUS > driver, now it tries to instantiate devices on actual I2C, SPI, UART from > describing manifests, but the ultimate goal is to describe the devices on > I2C/SPI/UART behind a greybus device, thus enabling to attach existing > kernel drivers to devices present in add-on boards attached to mikroBUS > ports added via greybus. > > Shall I submit a pull request to https://github.com/projectara/greybus-spec > for the specs, is there a different official upstream to greybus-spec? That's a good place, but for now, you can submit it as part of your patch series as well, so we can all see it and review it easier. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ greybus-dev mailing list greybus-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/greybus-dev
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