Re: [PATCH 00/13] HID: ft260: add UART and GPIO support, plus I2C fixes

[Linus Walleij]

Hi Michael,

thanks for your patch!

On Sat, Aug 22, 2026 at 11:40 PM Michael Zaidman
<michael.zaidman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Mainline supports only the FT260's I2C bridge. This series adds the
> UART/TTY interface and GPIO on top of it, and carries the I2C fixes made
> alongside them - two years of out-of-tree work [1], now replayed upstream.
(...)
>   HID: ft260: add serial driver
(...)
>   HID: ft260: add GPIO support on top of UART

This comment isn't pertaining to this one device in particular.

I'm not a HID maintainer but this trend to make HID devices spawn
serial and GPIO devices sort of turns HID into the new MFD, but
I suppose Jiri and Lee has discussed this phenomenon in the past?

Yours,
Linus Walleij