Re: [PATCH 1/3] mfd: Add support for FTDI FT232H devices

[Anatolij Gustschin]

On Mon, 10 Jul 2017 14:52:10 +0200
Johan Hovold johan@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 10:49:16PM +0200, Anatolij Gustschin wrote:
>> Add USB part with common functions for USB-GPIO/I2C/SPI master
>> adapters. These allow communication with chip's control, transmit
>> and receive endpoints and will be used by various FT232H drivers.  
>
>> +static const struct mfd_cell ftdi_cells[] = {
>> +	{ .name = "ftdi-cbus-gpio", },
>> +	{ .name = "ftdi-mpsse-i2c", },
>> +	{ .name = "ftdi-mpsse-spi", },
>> +	{ .name = "ftdi-fifo-fpp-mgr", },
>> +};  
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't these modes really mutually
>exclusive, possibly with exception of cbus-gpio (some pins are at least
>available as GPIOs in MPSSE mode)? Then MFD is not is not the right fit
>here either.

MPSSE and FIFO modes are mutually exclusive, but I'm not sure about
MPSSE and CBUS-GPIO. CBUS-GPIO didn't work as expected when I was
testing with MPSSE SPI master driver, but maybe it is a driver issue.
FT245 FIFO and CBUS GPIO can be switched by a control request, when
FIFO mode is configured in the EEPROM.

>And as David Laight already pointed out, your ftdi-fifo-fpp-mgr driver
>seems too application specific for a generic chip like this.

Yes, I agree. I'm thinking of a rework to add a FIFO driver instead
and use it in the fpp-mgr driver. Is that the right direction? 

Thanks,
Anatolij