Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:28:43 +0100 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/5] pinctrl: imx: add pinctrl imx driver | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:43:28AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: >> What we need to know right now is what you need from the pin >> controller core to do that. We have a (custom) pinconf API now, >> does it fit the bill? >> > Hmm, I do not think it fits right away, as I do not think it's sensible > to have pinctrl client drivers call pin_config_set() directly.
OK that's more or less what Stephen said too so I'm cooking a config table ala pinmux with string identifiers.
>> I have spent some time on generic pin config, it was not much >> commented so if it helps you please ACK the patches. >> > Since the ARM community is the one who is most interested in pinctrl > subsystem so far, I guess copying LAKML will help collect more comments > and various tags. (For example, I'm interested in pinctrl, but I do > not track LKML as close as I do for LAKML).
True. I'll fix that.
>> Next from discussions with Stpehen I've sort of figured out that >> we need a config mapping table of sorts and then a means to activate >> entries of that table at runtime. I'm trying to come up with something >> for this. >> > That's something we are waiting for pinconf being usable for imx.
I'll fix something, please review when it appears!
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