[PATCH v2 0/8] video: ssd1307fb: Add SPI support

Sascha Hauer sha at pengutronix.de
Mon Jan 3 00:06:37 PST 2022


On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 05:03:56PM +0100, Michael Tretter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The Solomon single-chip CMOS OLED/PLED driver with controller can be connected
> to I2C or SPI. The driver already supports I2C. This series adds support for
> SPI connected displays to the driver.
> 
> The bindings for the SPI connected display are still not documented. The
> driver uses the (undocumented) solomon,ssd1306 compatible of the staging
> driver in Linux, but uses properties defined for the solomon,ssd1306fb-i2c
> compatible of the I2C driver. I moved the warning about the compatible from
> the commit message into the driver to have it in the same place as the use of
> the compatible and to allow to eventually remove it.
> 
> The driver still allows to use SPI and I2C with its own hand-rolled
> abstraction, because the controller does not actually expose registers, but
> simply accepts commands or data. I followed Ahmad's suggestions how to remove
> the ugly #ifdefs and the driver looks a lot nicer now.
> 
> Patches 1-3 adjust the SPI and I2C frameworks to make them nicer to use for
> drivers that support devices that may be connected via SPI or I2C.
> 
> Patches 4-7 refactor the driver to have fewer locations that refer to I2C to
> simplify disabling the I2C support.
> 
> Patch 8 actually adds the SPI support and makes I2C optional.
> 
> Michael
> 
> ---
> 
> Changelog:
> 
> v2:
> 
> - add new Patches 1-3 for the SPI and I2C frameworks
> - use new SPI and I2C helpers to get rid of use of config macros
> - move warning about undocumented compatible into driver
> 
> Michael Tretter (8):
>   spi: stub device_spi_driver if SPI is disabled
>   spi: add to_spi_device helper
>   i2c: stub device_i2c_driver if I2C is disabled
>   video: ssd1307fb: pass par instead of i2c client to write
>   video: ssd1307fb: don't use i2c client for logging
>   video: ssd1307fb: move i2c setup to single place
>   video: ssd1307fb: use function pointer for write
>   video: ssd1307fb: add spi support

Applied, thanks

Sascha


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