On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 9:19 PM Denis CIOCCA <denis.ciocca@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > I strongly disagree that these parts will be supported by STMicroelectronics driver. > We DO NOT want to find out one day that we need to modify our structure in order to support competition. If they need to support this chip, please provide a new driver for that part leaving STMicroelectronics driver managing our parts. I'm not sure I understand this passage. Are you telling we have to have Amount_of_Vendors * cloned_component drivers? This is NOT how Linux kernel works, really. Look at the pca953x GPIO expander driver, for example. It has tons of clones supported and no-one died. > > On Sun, 16 Aug 2020 at 18:55, Andy Shevchenko > > <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > No SoB tag?! Hint: `git commit -a -s --amend` would fix this if you > > > have properly configured Git. > > > > > > > Sorry I wasn't aware it was needed for an RFC. > > > > > On top of that, can you add Datasheet: tag with links to the actual > > > component datasheets? > > > > I will do that for the v1 of the patch series. All of the datasheets I've found so > > far are mostly Chinese but the register tables are in English. I've collected > > them together > > here: http://linux-chenxing.org/silan/index.html -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
