[PATCH 1/2] drivers: create a pin control subsystem v7

[Stephen Warren]

Linus Walleij wrote at Friday, September 16, 2011 6:13 AM:
> This creates a subsystem for handling of pin control devices.
> These are devices that control different aspects of package
> pins.

I've read through the documentation and header files, but not the .c files,
and this looks almost perfect as far as I can tell right now. I'll try to
review the .c files sometime too.

I just have one comment:

> diff --git a/include/linux/pinctrl/pinmux.h b/include/linux/pinctrl/pinmux.h
...
> +/* External interface to pinmux */
> +extern int pinmux_request_gpio(unsigned gpio);
> +extern void pinmux_free_gpio(unsigned gpio);
> +extern struct pinmux * __must_check pinmux_get(struct device *dev, const char *name);
> +extern void pinmux_put(struct pinmux *pmx);
> +extern int pinmux_enable(struct pinmux *pmx);
> +extern void pinmux_disable(struct pinmux *pmx);
> +extern int pinmux_config(struct pinmux *pmx, u16 param, unsigned long *data);

That definition of pinmux_config doesn't seem as useful as it could be;
I'd like the ability to execute pinmux_config on a /named/ group, and I
can certainly see a use-case for applying it to /named/ pins too.

The issues with applying pinmux_config to a mapping table entry are:

* When there are multiple mapping table entries referenced by one
pinmux_get, you don't necessarily want to apply the same configuration
to all of the groups; think of a bus with a combination of low-speed
output control signals and high-speed input data signals or something
like that.

* When muxing works in groups, you may want to apply the configuration
to individual pins rather than the whole groups using in the mapping
table.

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