Re: [PATCH v1 0/9] Add Nuvoton NCT6694 MFD devices

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

On 25.10.2024 16:22:01, Ming Yu wrote:
> Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 於 2024年10月24日 週四 下午7:57寫道：
> > On 24.10.2024 16:59:13, Ming Yu wrote:
> > > This patch series introduces support for Nuvoton NCT6694, a peripheral
> > > expander based on USB interface. It models the chip as an MFD driver
> > > (1/9), GPIO driver(2/9), I2C Adapter driver(3/9), CANfd driver(4/9),
> > > WDT driver(5/9), HWMON driver(6/9), IIO driver(7/9), PWM driver(8/9),
> > > and RTC driver(9/9).
> > >
> > > The MFD driver implements USB device functionality to issue
> > > custom-define USB bulk pipe packets for NCT6694. Each child device can
> > > use the USB functions nct6694_read_msg() and nct6694_write_msg() to issue
> > > a command. They can also register a handler function that will be called
> > > when the USB device receives its interrupt pipe.
> >
> > What about implementing a proper IRQ demux handler instead?

> I think the currently planned IRQ process meets expectations.
> Is there anything that needs improvement?

You can register the IRQs of the MFD device with the Linux kernel. This
way the devices can request a threaded IRQ handler directly via the
kernel function, instead of registering the callback.

With a threaded IRQ handler you can directly call the
nct6694_read_msg(), nct6694_write_msg() without the need to start a
workqueue from the callback.

Marc

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