[PATCH v2 02/11] arm: pxa27x: support ICP DAS LP-8x4x

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:

>> Argh! Now you're adding another user for a legacy custom pin control
>> implementation. But if noone is going to modernize PXA2xx what
>> can we do :-/
>
> I tried a ~year ago, but it's not so trivial. PXA2xx has no separate
> pin control module, it's
> highly integrated into GPIO controller. I've asked the maillist what
> should I do for that case, but AFAIR no one answered.

It is very common for pin controllers and GPIO blocks to
be integrated.

The usual solution is to make a combined driver that registers
both pinctrl and GPIO interfaces and put that into
drivers/pinctrl.

Here is a recent example that can be used as inspiration:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-doc&m=138629591206248&w=2

Yours,
Linus Walleij