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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: add a generic pin config interface
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 03:19:39PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mark Brown

> > I'd second this - in my experience detailed setup for these settings
> > usually comes from hardware engineers in the form of "set register X to
> > value Y".  Having to decode the sematics does make things that little
> > bit harder.

> I'm a bit reluctant, since the above is sometimes referred to as
> "throw over the wall engineering" and is generally considered a bad
> way of doing things.

Well, another way of describing the above situation would be the
software engineers going to the hardware engineer and saying that
they've got ringing on a signal (or something) and the hardware
engineer coming back with a suggested fix.
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