Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] CAN TRANSCEIVER: Add support for CAN transceivers

From: Aswath Govindraju
Date: Fri Apr 16 2021 - 07:44:45 EST


Hi all,

On 16/04/21 10:56 am, Aswath Govindraju wrote:
> The following series of patches add support for CAN transceivers.
>
> TCAN1042 has a standby signal that needs to be pulled high for
> sending/receiving messages[1]. TCAN1043 has a enable signal along with
> standby signal that needs to be pulled up for sending/receiving
> messages[2], and other combinations of the two lines can be used to put the
> transceiver in different states to reduce power consumption. On boards
> like the AM654-idk and J721e-evm these signals are controlled using gpios.
>
> Patch 1 rewords the comment that restricts max_link_rate attribute to have
> units of Mbps.
>
> Patch 2 models the transceiver as a phy device tree node with properties
> for max bit rate supported, gpio properties for indicating gpio pin numbers
> to which standby and enable signals are connected.
>
> Patch 2 adds a generic driver to support CAN transceivers.
>
> changes since v3:
> - dropped patch 2(in v3)
> - changed the node name property in patch 3(in v3)
> - picked up Rob Herring's reviewed-by for patch 3(in v3)
>
> changes since v2:
> - dropped 5 and 6 patches and to be sent via linux-can-next
> - added static keyword for can_transceiver_phy_probe()
> - changed enable gpio example to active high in patch 3
> - Rearranged the file names in alphabetical order in Makefile
> and MAINTAINERS file
>
> changes since v1:
> - Added patch 1 (in v2) that rewords the comment that restrict
> max_link_rate attribute to have units of Mbps.
> - Added patch 2 (in v2) that adds an API for
> devm_of_phy_optional_get_by_index
> - Patch 1 (in v1)
> - updated MAINTAINERS file
> - Patch 2 (in v1)
> - replaced m_can with CAN to make the driver independent of CAN driver
> - Added prefix CAN_TRANSCEIVER for EN_PRESENT and STB_PRESENT
> - Added new line before return statements in power_on() and power_off
> - Added error handling patch for devm_kzalloc()
> - used the max_link_rate attribute directly instead of dividing it by
> 1000000
> - removed the spaces before GPIOD_OUT_LOW in devm_gpiod_get()
> - Corrected requested value for standby-gpios to GPIOD_OUT_HIGH
> - Updated MAINTAINERS file
> - Patch 3 (in v1)
> - replaced minItems with maxItems
> - Removed phy-names property as there is only one phy
> - Patch 4 (in v1)
> - replaced dev_warn with dev_info when no transceiver is found
> - Added struct phy * field in m_can_classdev struct
> - moved phy_power_on and phy_power_off to m_can_open and m_can_close
> respectively
> - Moved the check for max_bit_rate to generice transceiver driver
>
> [1] - https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tcan1042h.pdf
> [2] - https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/tcan1043-q1.pdf
>
>

Posted v5 for this series.

Thanks,
Aswath

> Aswath Govindraju (3):
> phy: core: Reword the comment specifying the units of max_link_rate to
> be Mbps
> dt-bindings: phy: Add binding for TI TCAN104x CAN transceivers
> phy: phy-can-transceiver: Add support for generic CAN transceiver
> driver
>
> .../bindings/phy/ti,tcan104x-can.yaml | 56 +++++++
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +
> drivers/phy/Kconfig | 9 ++
> drivers/phy/Makefile | 1 +
> drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c | 146 ++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/phy/phy.h | 2 +-
> 6 files changed, 215 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/phy/ti,tcan104x-can.yaml
> create mode 100644 drivers/phy/phy-can-transceiver.c
>