[PATCH 0/3] pinctrl: add support for samsung pinctrl driver

Thomas Abraham thomas.abraham at linaro.org
Thu May 31 22:06:27 EDT 2012


On 1 June 2012 09:40, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Thomas Abraham
> <thomas.abraham at linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> Note that, the Samsung pinctrl driver is usable only on device tree enabled
>> Samsung platforms. Legacy platforms would still continue to use the older
>> gpiolib driver and hence updates to device drivers to use the pinctrl api
>> should ensure that support for legacy platforms is maintained.
>
> Is the plan to move also the older platforms over to the DT-based model?
> It'd be really nice to be able to just delete the old drivers at some point...

As of now, there is no plan to move the older Samsung platforms to
DT-based model. Moving to DT-based model requires people with the
board support upstreamed for older Samsung SoC's to sign up for the dt
conversion process without which testing will not be possible. So for
now, we will have to maintain the old drivers also.

Thanks,
Thomas.

>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij



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