[PATCH V4 1/4] ARM: dts: exynos5420: add i2s controllers

Padma Venkat padma.kvr at gmail.com
Wed Aug 14 01:51:40 EDT 2013


Hi Tomasz,

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 12 of August 2013 14:12:36 Mark Brown wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 01:41:23PM +0200, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>> > On Monday 12 of August 2013 12:34:48 Mark Brown wrote:
>> > > I'd expect that to interact badly with the pinmuxing - unless the
>> > > device is disabled it'll try to grab its pins on probe which is not
>> > > going to be a good idea unless it is actually wired up for use in
>> > > the system.  Or is there some other mechanism for handling that?
>> >
>> > Ah, good point. Now I wonder whether pinctrl nodes shouldn't be
>> > considered board-specific and specified in board-level dts instead?
>>
>> It seems a bit cleaner to use the current mechanism in that it stops the
>> device appearing at all and hence repeated efforts to probe, plus a
>> simple enable is less error prone, the way these SoCs are designed you
>> don't have to pick which pinmux is in use for most of the IPs.  Where
>> there are multiple options it does seem like a good approach though.
>>
>> Tastes may differ though.
>
> Right, if this SoC has only one pinmux setting for this IP, then it's
> fine.

Yes. This IP has only default pin configuration.

>
> Padmavathi, this was the only issue I spotted, so have my:
>
> Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa <t.figa at samsung.com>

Thanks for your review.

>
> Best regards,
> Tomasz
>

Best Regards,
Padma



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