Re: Char Driver for Silicon Labs Si446x Transceivers

[Sunip Mukherjee]

Thank you so much, I will follow the documentation and submit a patch
soon for review.

Thanks,
Sunip

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 2:01 AM Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 01:17:09PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > On 7/5/21 10:10 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 05, 2021 at 06:09:28PM -0400, Sunip Mukherjee wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I am very new to the kernel community; this is my first message in the
> > >> LKML so my apologies if I am doing things wrong.
> > >>
> > >> I have been using an Si4463 transceiver for UHF communication with a
> > >> cubesat I developed. I could not find any code to control the
> > >> transceiver on Linux. The closest thing I could find was an AVR
> > >> implementation by Zak Kemble
> > >> (https://blog.zakkemble.net/si4463-radio-library-avr-arduino/).
> > >> I followed the API docs and rewrote the whole thing at first for
> > >> userland only (can be found here:
> > >> https://github.com/SPACE-HAUC/si446x_linux/releases/tag/v3.1), and
> > >> then I decided it would be a great learning opportunity for me to port
> > >> it to the kernel.
> > >>
> > >> The kernel port has gone mostly smoothly. The transceiver communicates
> > >> with the host MCU over SPI, and requires a pin for RESET, and another
> > >> pin for IRQ.
> > >> I have implemented the driver to provide a char device (/dev/si446x#)
> > >> to the userland for open, read, write, poll and ioctl.
> > >> I had initially set up a pull request for the driver and the device
> > >> tree overlay to the Raspberry Pi kernel community. They have agreed to
> > >> accept the device tree overlay for the device, however the driver
> > >> needs to be included by the Linux Kernel community. I want to use this
> > >> opportunity to find some people who have access to a Si446x
> > >> transceiver and a Raspberry Pi, so that the code I have can be tested,
> > >> and if deemed worthy, included in the kernel tree.
> > >>
> > >> My code is hosted here: https://github.com/sunipkmukherjee/silabs.git
> > >>
> > >> Any suggestions/criticisms are welcome.
> > >
> > > If you post it in a patch form, as described in our documentation, I
> > > will be glad to review it.  Otherwise just looking at a random github
> > > repo is quite difficult and provides no way to give proper feedback.
> > >
> > > Instructions on how to make a patch and submit it and the proper format
> > > for everything can be found in the Documentation/SubmittingPatches file.
> >
> > which is now known as Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
>
> That's what that file says :)
>
> I should update my bot one of these days to point to the real
> location...
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h