[PATCH] pinctrl: delete raw device pointers in pinmux maps

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Feb 1 13:41:21 EST 2012


On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com> wrote:
> Linus Walleij wrote at Wednesday, February 01, 2012 10:24 AM:
>> After discussion with Mark Brown in an unrelated thread about
>> ADC lookups, it came to my knowledge that the ability to pass
>> a struct device * in the regulator consumers is just a
>> historical artifact, and not really recommended. Since there
>> are no in-kernel users of these pointers, we just kill them
>> right now, before someone starts to use them.
>>
>> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>
> I didn't review the code, but just wanted to note that
> Documentation/pinctrl.txt needs some updates too, e.g. "Pinmux
> board/machine configuration" says:

Good catch! Spinning a v2 with that removed.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij



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