Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/3] mikroBUS driver for add-on boards

[Vaishnav M A]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 8:54 PM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 06:18:12PM +0530, Vaishnav M A wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This Patch series is an update to the mikroBUS driver
> > RFC v1 Patch : https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/7/24/518 .
>
> Please use lore.kernel.org for links, we have no idea if lkml.org will
> be working tomorrow or not :)
>
Hi Greg,

Thanks, will use lore.kernel.org for the links, attaching the corresponding
link to the v1 RFC patch thread for reference:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200724120637.GA427284@vaishnav-VirtualBox/

> > The mikrobus driver is updated to add mikrobus ports from device-tree
> > overlays, the debug interfaces for adding mikrobus ports through sysFS
> > is removed, and the driver considers the extended usage of mikrobus
> > port pins from their standard purposes.
>
> I don't know what "properties" and "device" mean with regards to things
> here, any chance you can provide a patch to the greybus spec itself that
> adds this information so we can better understand the reasoning here to
> see if the kernel changes match up with the goals?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Sure, I will add a patch to the greybus-spec to describe the new descriptors,
the property and device descriptors are introduced to add information
about the SPI/I2C/UART chip/sensor which is required by the corresponding
device drivers, With these descriptors, it will be possible to describe devices
on I2C, SPI, UART, etc. behind a greybus device so as to bind existing kernel
drivers to them, This is not what is currently being done within the mikroBUS
driver, now it tries to instantiate devices on actual I2C, SPI, UART from
describing manifests, but the ultimate goal is to describe the devices on
I2C/SPI/UART behind a greybus device, thus enabling to attach existing
kernel drivers to devices present in add-on boards attached to mikroBUS
ports added via greybus.

Shall I submit a pull request to https://github.com/projectara/greybus-spec
for the specs, is there a different official upstream to greybus-spec?

Thanks and Regards,
Vaishnav M A