Getting your opinion about the best place to put one specific device driver...

[Peter De Schrijver]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 05:54:39PM +0100, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> [130213 03:07]:
> > On Wednesday 13 February 2013, Jean-Nicolas GRAUX wrote:
> > > Le 02/12/2013 06:41 PM, Arnd Bergmann a écrit :
> > > > On Tuesday 12 February 2013, Jean-Nicolas GRAUX wrote:
> > > > If a more dynamic user interface is needed, I think it would be good
> > > > to have a generic mechanism in the pinctrl subsystem to reroute pins
> > > > like these, which can work for all pins in the system (or at least
> > > > those that have not been claimed by another device). I don't know if
> > > > that interface already exists, but Linus would be the right person
> > > > to answer that.
> > >
> > > I think i have one colleague that recently made a patch for that purpose.
> > > But i believe this is still in progress. It consists in improving the 
> > > pinctrl
> > > debugfs interface to be able to manually change the pin muxing and
> > > the gpio configuration for debug/testing purpose.
> > 
> > Sounds good to me. Peter, Tony, do you think that would be a good enough
> > interface for other platforms as well?
> 
> Yes debugfs is the way to go for modifying the hwobs settings.

Agreed. debugfs would be fine.

Cheers,

Peter.