Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Sep 2014 09:37:44 +0100 | From | Lee Jones <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] mfd: add support for Diolan DLN-2 devices |
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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.
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