[PATCH v4 4/4] mmc: sdhci-imx-esdhc: convert to use pinctrl subsystem

Dong Aisheng aisheng.dong at freescale.com
Tue May 1 23:27:08 EDT 2012


On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:51:26AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:12:58AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > If I cannot apply it there are two ways to proceed:
> > 1. Wait for next merge window
> > 2. Pull pinctrl into i.MX tree
> > 
> Yes, if we would not wait for next merge window, I prefer to ask Arnd,
> Olof to pull pinctrl into arm-soc as a dependency and we convert imx
> drivers to the subsystem in there.
> 
> BTW, this patch should be split into two.  Adding dummy pinctrl for
> imx should be one patch, and sdhci-imx-esdhc should be separate one.
> And we may want to come up a series to convert all outstanding imx
> driver to use pinctrl API, one patch for one driver with subsystem
> maintainer Cc on the corresponding driver patch.
> 
I can split it.
One question is that will driver convert patch go via subsystem tree
or soc tree?
If adding dummy pinctrl for imx goes via soc tree but sdhci-imx-esdhc
goes via mmc driver, the next one may break.

Regards
Dong Aisheng




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