[PATCH v2] leds: leds-gpio: adopt pinctrl support

AnilKumar, Chimata anilkumar at ti.com
Fri Sep 7 03:59:55 EDT 2012


On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 05:39:35, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Tony Lindgren,
> 
> > * Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> [120905 19:05]:
> > > Hi Tony,
> > > 
> > > > * Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de> [120904 20:13]:
> > > > > Dear Bryan Wu,
> > > > > 
> > > > > > On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:16 PM, AnilKumar Ch <anilkumar at ti.com> wrote:
> > > > > > > Adopt pinctrl support to leds-gpio driver based on leds-gpio
> > > > > > > device pointer, pinctrl driver configure SoC pins to GPIO
> > > > > > > mode according to definitions provided in .dts file.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Thanks for this, actually Marek Vasut submitted a similar patch
> > > > > > before. I'm pretty fine with this patch.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks for submitting this actually ... I didn't have time to
> > > > > properly investigate this.
> > > > > 
> > > > > > But without proper DT setting, it will also give us warning I
> > > > > > think. or we can provide some dummy functions as a temp solution
> > > > > > as Shawn pointed out before.
> > > > > 
> > > > > But this driver is also used on hardware that's not yet coverted to
> > > > > DT, so I'd say dev_warn() if CONFIG_OF is enabled and otherwise
> > > > > simply go on ? Actually, can we not skip whole this pinctrl thing if
> > > > > CONFIG_OF is disabled? Actually (2), what's the relationship between
> > > > > OF and pinctrl?
> > > > 
> > > > The warning should be pinctrl related as the pinctrl drivers may not be
> > > > device tree based drivers.
> > > 
> > > Exactly my concern. Also the warning shouldnt be present on systems where
> > > pinctrl is disabled.
> > 
> > But pinctrl_get_select() returns 0 in include/linux/pinctrl/consumer.h if
> > CONFIG_PINCTRL is not selected, so no warning is produced AFAIK ;)
> 
> Oh all right then.
> 

Bryan,

If this patch looks fine, can you queue this for 3.7?

Thanks
AnilKumar



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