[RFC PATCH 2/3] pinctrl: imx: add pinmux-imx53 support

Sascha Hauer s.hauer at pengutronix.de
Tue Dec 6 05:53:00 EST 2011


On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 02:25:01PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:18:38PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 05:57:42PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Dong Aisheng <b29396 at freescale.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > +enum imx_mx53_pads {
> > > > +       MX53_GPIO_19 = 0,
> > > > +       MX53_KEY_COL0 = 1,
> > > (...)
> > > 
> > > First I thought it looked a bit strange since you needed enums for all pads
> > > but then I realized that your macros use the same enumerator name to
> > > name the pad and then it looks sort of clever.
> > > 
> > > But maybe put in a comment about that here:
> > > 
> > > > +/* Pad names for the pinmux subsystem */
> > > 
> > > Like this:
> > > 
> > > /*
> > >  * Pad names for the pinmux subsystem.
> > >  * These pad names are constructed from the pin enumerator names
> > >  * in the IMX_PINCTRL_PIN() macro.
> > >  */
> > > 
> > > > +static const struct pinctrl_pin_desc mx53_pads[] = {
> > > > +       IMX_PINCTRL_PIN(MX53_GPIO_19),
> > > > +       IMX_PINCTRL_PIN(MX53_KEY_COL0),
> > > (...)
> > > 
> > > > +/* mx53 pin groups and mux mode */
> > > > +static const unsigned mx53_fec_pins[] = {
> > > > +       MX53_FEC_MDC,
> > > > +       MX53_FEC_MDIO,
> > > > +       MX53_FEC_REF_CLK,
> > > > +       MX53_FEC_RX_ER,
> > > > +       MX53_FEC_CRS_DV,
> > > > +       MX53_FEC_RXD1,
> > > > +       MX53_FEC_RXD0,
> > > > +       MX53_FEC_TX_EN,
> > > > +       MX53_FEC_TXD1,
> > > > +       MX53_FEC_TXD0,
> > > > +};
> > > 
> > > I understand this.
> > > 
> > > > +static const unsigned mx53_fec_mux[] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
> > > 
> > > But what is this? Just zeroes? Why?
> > > Especially with a const so they really cannot be anything
> > > else. The same pin (0) can only be enumerated once.
> > > 
> > > > +static const unsigned mx53_sd1_pins[] = {
> > > > +       MX53_SD1_CMD,
> > > > +       MX53_SD1_CLK,
> > > > +       MX53_SD1_DATA0,
> > > > +       MX53_SD1_DATA1,
> > > > +       MX53_SD1_DATA2,
> > > > +       MX53_SD1_DATA3,
> > > > +
> > > > +};
> > > > +static const unsigned mx53_sd1_mux[] = { 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 };
> > > 
> > > And here again.
> > > 
> > > > +static const unsigned mx53_sd3_pins[] = {
> > > > +       MX53_PATA_DATA8,
> > > > +       MX53_PATA_DATA9,
> > > > +       MX53_PATA_DATA10,
> > > > +       MX53_PATA_DATA11,
> > > > +       MX53_PATA_DATA0,
> > > > +       MX53_PATA_DATA1,
> > > > +       MX53_PATA_DATA2,
> > > > +       MX53_PATA_DATA3,
> > > > +       MX53_PATA_IORDY,
> > > > +       MX53_PATA_RESET_B,
> > > > +
> > > > +};
> > > > +static const unsigned mx53_sd3_mux[] = { 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2 };
> > > 
> > > This also looks strange. Can you explain what these muxes are?
> > 
> > Freescale has named the pins after their primary function which is quite
> > confusing.
> > 
> > The above means:
> > 
> > MX53_PATA_DATA8 -> mux mode 4
> > MX53_PATA_DATA9 -> mux mode 4
> > ...
> > 
> > This brings me to the point that currently we have the pins described as
> > 
> > #define MX53_PAD_<name>__<function>
> > 
> But that's also the reason why we have so many lengthy iomux-mx*.h on
> imx.  Taking iomux-mx53.h for example, it's a 109K header with 1219
> LOC, but probably only 10% of the definitions will actually be used.
> 
> > which means that you don't have to look into the datasheet to get the
> > different options for a pin
> 
> Looking at the datasheet when we write code is a pretty natural thing
> to me.

Yes, but digging again and again for the same pinmux setting (and the
corresponding sel_input registers) is a PITA.

Sascha

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