Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: add support for Diolan DLN-2 devices

[Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

Hi Lee,

We initially submitted this driver as a pure USB driver, with our own
module registration mechanism, but during the first round of reviews
people pointed out that a MFD driver is the better approach, and I
agree. I also see that there are already a couple of USB drivers
implemented as MFD drivers.

Do you see a better approach?

Thanks,
Tavi
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