linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add Updown Counter support for Milbeaut M10V SoC

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Message-ID: <bddfd8ca-c82a-68f8-ba05-45ce6df9bd4f@socionext.com>
Date:   Tue, 2 Apr 2019 15:22:22 +0900
From:   Kanematsu, Shinji/兼松 伸次 
        <kanematsu.shinji@...ionext.com>
To:     William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Cc:     kanematsu.shinji@...ionext.com, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, knaack.h@....de, lars@...afoo.de,
        pmeerw@...erw.net, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        masami.hiramatsu@...aro.org, jaswinder.singh@...aro.org,
        orito.takao@...ionext.com, sugaya.taichi@...ionext.com,
        kasai.kazuhiro@...ionext.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Add Updown Counter support for Milbeaut M10V SoC

Hi William,

On 2019/03/31 11:09, William Breathitt Gray wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 06:36:03PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
>> On Tue, 26 Mar 2019 15:32:34 +0900
>> Shinji Kanematsu <kanematsu.shinji@...ionext.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is a series of patch which adds Updown Counter support on
>>> Milbeaut M10V SoC.
>>>
>>> The Updown Counter counts input pulse signal from external quadrature encoder.
>>> It also has input pulse signal counter function.
>> Hi Shinji,
>>
>> Are you aware of the counter subsystem that has been proposed (and
>> as far as I am concerned is ready to be merged)?
>>
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-iio/list/?series=147
>> (I think that's the latest version posted)..
>> William, perhaps you could give an update?
>>
>> (bad luck, you are getting popular ;)
>>
>> I'll take a quick review as it stands, as some issues may carry over.
>> I appreciate that it's always unfortunate to try to upstream stuff at the
>> same time as a new framework is being developed / upstreamed, but I don't
>> intend to take any additional counter drivers into IIO.  We just
>> end up having to maintain old interfaces in more and more drivers.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jonathan
> 
> Shinji,
> 
> If you reimplement this driver to use the new Generic Counter API, I can
> pick it up and include it with my next patchset submission. Please base
> your patches ontop of the "generic_counter_v10" branch from my personal
> repository:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/vilhelmgray/iio/commits/generic_counter_v10
> 
> Documentation can be found at:
> 
> 	Documentation/driver-api/generic-counter.rst
> 	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-counter
> 
> Look at the existing drivers inside the drivers/counter directory to
> serve as references:
> 
> 	drivers/counter/ftm-quaddec.c
> 	drivers/counter/stm32-timer-cnt.c
> 
> If you have any troubles or difficulties with the API, send me a message
> and I will be happy to help. :-)
> 

Thank you for your information.
I read and understand the new Generic Counter API.

Thank you,
Kanematsu

> Thank you,
> 
> William Breathitt Gray
> 
>>
>>>
>>> Shinji Kanematsu (2):
>>>    dt-bindings: iio: counter: Add Milbeaut Updown Counter
>>>    iio: counter: Add support for Milbeaut Updown Counter
>>>
>>>   .../bindings/iio/counter/milbeaut-updown_cnt.txt   |  22 ++
>>>   drivers/iio/counter/Kconfig                        |  12 +
>>>   drivers/iio/counter/Makefile                       |   1 +
>>>   drivers/iio/counter/milbeaut-updown.h              |  38 ++
>>>   drivers/iio/counter/milbeaut-updown_cnt.c          | 385 +++++++++++++++++++++
>>>   5 files changed, 458 insertions(+)
>>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/counter/milbeaut-updown_cnt.txt
>>>   create mode 100644 drivers/iio/counter/milbeaut-updown.h
>>>   create mode 100644 drivers/iio/counter/milbeaut-updown_cnt.c
>>>
>>