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

[Lee Jones]

On Tue, 25 Aug 2026, Linus Walleij wrote:

> 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?

What is this?  4 device drivers in one, shoved into HID?  Each
component; HID, I2C, GPIO, UART, should live in its respective
subsystem, surely?

-- 
Lee Jones