[PATCH v2 1/9] pinctrl: mvebu: pinctrl driver core

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 08/25/2012 08:53 AM, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>>
>> now I do understand but in the current driver we pass pingroups associated
>> with the available functions, i.e. "mpp2" with "uart1", "uart2",
>> "sdio0", aso.
>> IMHO for the above three functions it would be better to have functions
>> associated
>> with the corresponding groups, i.e. "uart1" with "mpp_uart1", "mpp2",
>> "mpp3", aso.
>
> The pinctrl subsystem does expect a list of functions, and for each
> function, a list of the groups where it can be selected. I admit that
> when I think about this, it's slightly backward, since HW typically has
> a list of pins/groups, and for each, a certain set of functions can be
> selected. Oh well...

I agree that this is how we engineered it, would it create big hassles
for you to fix up the driver so it's the other way around Sebastian?

I understand that the driver is perfectly working as it is, but from
a subsystem maintainer point of view it is annoying if one driver
turns the concepts around and it gets hard to maintain.

Yours,
Linus Walleij