[PATCH/RFC] ARM: shmobile: Disallow PINCTRL without GPIOLIB
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Tue Apr 9 10:07:58 EDT 2013
Hi Linus,
On Tuesday 09 April 2013 10:06:45 Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >> About this issue, the fact that selecting PINCTRL without GPIO results
> >> in compile error makes me think that something needs slight adjustment
> >> in the PFC code.
> >
> > The above errors come from the pinctrl core (although the PFC driver might
> > not compile either in this case). Linus, what's your opinion on this ? Do
> > we want to support systems with pinctrl but without gpiolib ?
>
> Yes. It is perfectly legal to have pin controllers that do not correlate
> GPIO ranges.
>
> Does commit 2afe8229687ec24cbc07e78449a588bb8b68f858
> "pinctrl: core: add dependence of GPIOLIB"
> by Haojian fix this issue?
Yes it does.
I've just sent a patch that makes GPIOLIB support optional in the PFC driver.
Magnus, with these two, should we revert
6722f6cb763203cab775297b6e9d00834af0d6d7 ?
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Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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