[PATCH v3 1/4] pinctrl: add samsung pinctrl and gpiolib driver

Thomas Abraham thomas.abraham at linaro.org
Tue Sep 4 15:47:48 EDT 2012


On 3 September 2012 16:44, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Thomas Abraham
> <thomas.abraham at linaro.org> wrote:
>
>> Add a new device tree enabled pinctrl and gpiolib driver for Samsung
>> SoC's. This driver provides a common and extensible framework for all
>> Samsung SoC's to interface with the pinctrl and gpiolib subsystems. This
>> driver supports only device tree based instantiation and hence can be
>> used only on those Samsung platforms that have device tree enabled.
>>
>> This driver is split into two parts: the pinctrl interface and the gpiolib
>> interface. The pinctrl interface registers pinctrl devices with the pinctrl
>> subsystem and gpiolib interface registers gpio chips with the gpiolib
>> subsystem. The information about the pins, pin groups, pin functions and
>> gpio chips, which are SoC specific, are parsed from device tree node.
>>
>> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>> Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim at samsung.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham at linaro.org>
>
> Looks good to me, I saw Stephen had some minor comments and
> I expect that you probably fix them before applying to the Samsung
> tree so:
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>
> Feel free to push this through ARM SoC, I guess that's the plan?

Hi Linus,

Thanks for reviewing the Samsung pinctrl driver patches. I will do the
changes that Stephen has listed and resubmit. I will request Samsung
maintainer to consider the support for pinctrl driver for 3.7.

Thanks,
Thomas.



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