Hi Tristam,
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 5:16 AM <tristram...@microchip.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry about the patch. I know you were using the code from the new SPI and
> old I2C drivers to come up with your patch. You can incorporate the changes
> and test the driver and re-submit the patch if you want.
For me is ok to just use the driver you have just submitted, there is
no need to me to resend anything, I think. I only wanted an i2c driver
for this switch and because there wasn't one I just sent my patches
:-).
>
> Your i2c_probe function displays an error message when
> ksz9477_switch_register is not successful. It is likely the error code is
> from the dsa_register_switch function when the core DSA driver is not loaded
> yet.
>
> All the register access functions in ksz_io_ops structure will be called by
> the driver code. The length should always be non-zero. The set and get
> functions can be invoked by the standard kernel register access API, which is
> called in user space. The functions that handle this API make sure the
> length is non-zero before continuing. For switches with simple register set
> the get function can dump all registers in one call.
>
> I am not sure this register access API is allowed anymore as this may create
> a security hole in the kernel, but it helps greatly during development and
> testing as the driver is quite opaque to display the hardware state when
> something is wrong.
>
> A little out-of-topic is the modalias now returns a different string rather
> than "i2c:ksz9477." This is done with the "cat
> /sys/bus/i2c/devices/0-005f/modalias" command. The string looks legit but it
> is difficult for regular users to get anything from it.
>
Thanks for clarification.
Best regards,
Sergio Paracuellos
