Add a new initial driver for Maxim MAX6958/6959 chips.
While developing that driver I realised that there is a lot
of duplication between ht16k33 and a new one. Hence set of
cleanups and refactorings.

Note, the new driver has minimum support of the hardware and
I have plans to cover more features in the future.

In v3:
- dropped applied patches
- fixed compilation error (Geert)
- dragging back and force added memory allocation for the character buffer
- dropped 'with keyscan' in new driver (Geert)
- rephrased a bit description in DT bindings for new driver (Geert)
- added tags to the (almost) unchanged patches (Geert, Krzysztof, Robin)

In v2:
- updated DT bindings to follow specifications and requirements (Krzysztof)
- unified return code variable (err everywhere)
- left patches 10 and 13 untouched, we may amend later on (Robin)

Andy Shevchenko (9):
  auxdisplay: linedisp: Group display drivers together
  auxdisplay: linedisp: Allocate buffer for the string
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: Add default to switch-cases
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: Move ht16k33_linedisp_ops down
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: Define a few helper macros
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: Switch to use line display character mapping
  auxdisplay: ht16k33: Drop struct ht16k33_seg
  dt-bindings: auxdisplay: Add Maxim MAX6958/6959
  auxdisplay: Add driver for MAX695x 7-segment LED controllers

 .../bindings/auxdisplay/maxim,max6959.yaml    |  44 +++
 drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig                    | 306 ++++++++++--------
 drivers/auxdisplay/Makefile                   |  16 +-
 drivers/auxdisplay/ht16k33.c                  | 177 ++++------
 drivers/auxdisplay/img-ascii-lcd.c            |  17 +-
 drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.c             |  11 +-
 drivers/auxdisplay/line-display.h             |   3 +-
 drivers/auxdisplay/max6959.c                  | 194 +++++++++++
 8 files changed, 496 insertions(+), 272 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/maxim,max6959.yaml
 create mode 100644 drivers/auxdisplay/max6959.c

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2.43.0.rc1.1.gbec44491f096

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:57:59PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Add a new initial driver for Maxim MAX6958/6959 chips.
> While developing that driver I realised that there is a lot
> of duplication between ht16k33 and a new one. Hence set of
> cleanups and refactorings.
> 
> Note, the new driver has minimum support of the hardware and
> I have plans to cover more features in the future.

Geert, would it be possible to give one more round of reviewing/testing
this week? I want to close auxdisplay for next merge window next week.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

Hi Andy,

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:51 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:57:59PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Add a new initial driver for Maxim MAX6958/6959 chips.
> > While developing that driver I realised that there is a lot
> > of duplication between ht16k33 and a new one. Hence set of
> > cleanups and refactorings.
> >
> > Note, the new driver has minimum support of the hardware and
> > I have plans to cover more features in the future.
>
> Geert, would it be possible to give one more round of reviewing/testing
> this week? I want to close auxdisplay for next merge window next week.

For 1-7 (linedisp and ht16k33):
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

I hope to get to the actual review later...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert


--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 02:56:35PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:51 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:57:59PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > Add a new initial driver for Maxim MAX6958/6959 chips.
> > > While developing that driver I realised that there is a lot
> > > of duplication between ht16k33 and a new one. Hence set of
> > > cleanups and refactorings.
> > >
> > > Note, the new driver has minimum support of the hardware and
> > > I have plans to cover more features in the future.
> >
> > Geert, would it be possible to give one more round of reviewing/testing
> > this week? I want to close auxdisplay for next merge window next week.
> 
> For 1-7 (linedisp and ht16k33):
> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Thank you for the testing and review, I have pushed patches 2-7, postponed
patch 1 and will see what I can do with patches 8-9.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 06:24:29PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 02:56:35PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:51 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:57:59PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > Add a new initial driver for Maxim MAX6958/6959 chips.
> > > > While developing that driver I realised that there is a lot
> > > > of duplication between ht16k33 and a new one. Hence set of
> > > > cleanups and refactorings.
> > > >
> > > > Note, the new driver has minimum support of the hardware and
> > > > I have plans to cover more features in the future.
> > >
> > > Geert, would it be possible to give one more round of reviewing/testing
> > > this week? I want to close auxdisplay for next merge window next week.
> > 
> > For 1-7 (linedisp and ht16k33):
> > Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> 
> Thank you for the testing and review, I have pushed patches 2-7, postponed
> patch 1 and will see what I can do with patches 8-9.

After discussion I have applied the patches 8-9 as is in this series with
Geert's tags. The other things are considered as new features that can be
implemented later on.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

Hi Andy,

On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 7:00 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 06:24:29PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 02:56:35PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:51 PM Andy Shevchenko
> > > <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:57:59PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > > Add a new initial driver for Maxim MAX6958/6959 chips.
> > > > > While developing that driver I realised that there is a lot
> > > > > of duplication between ht16k33 and a new one. Hence set of
> > > > > cleanups and refactorings.
> > > > >
> > > > > Note, the new driver has minimum support of the hardware and
> > > > > I have plans to cover more features in the future.
> > > >
> > > > Geert, would it be possible to give one more round of reviewing/testing
> > > > this week? I want to close auxdisplay for next merge window next week.
> > >
> > > For 1-7 (linedisp and ht16k33):
> > > Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> >
> > Thank you for the testing and review, I have pushed patches 2-7, postponed
> > patch 1 and will see what I can do with patches 8-9.
>
> After discussion I have applied the patches 8-9 as is in this series with
> Geert's tags. The other things are considered as new features that can be
> implemented later on.

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 02:56:35PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 2:51 PM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 06:57:59PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > Add a new initial driver for Maxim MAX6958/6959 chips.
> > > While developing that driver I realised that there is a lot
> > > of duplication between ht16k33 and a new one. Hence set of
> > > cleanups and refactorings.
> > >
> > > Note, the new driver has minimum support of the hardware and
> > > I have plans to cover more features in the future.
> >
> > Geert, would it be possible to give one more round of reviewing/testing
> > this week? I want to close auxdisplay for next merge window next week.
> 
> For 1-7 (linedisp and ht16k33):
> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

Thank you!

> I hope to get to the actual review later...

Hope you will find time soon...

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko