[PATCH 01/11] pinctrl: single: adopt pinctrl sleep mode management

[Tony Lindgren]

* Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> [130617 09:14]:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony at atomide.com> wrote:
> > * Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> [130617 04:38]:
> >> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Hebbar Gururaja
> >> <gururaja.hebbar at ti.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Make pinctrl-single able to handle suspend/resume events and change
> >> > hogged pins states accordingly.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Hebbar Gururaja <gururaja.hebbar at ti.com>
> >> > Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> >>
> >> Noone said anything about this patch, but it looks very straight-forward
> >> to me and seems sound so I have applied it.
> >>
> >> If Tony or Haojian has strong feelings about it I will dequeue it.
> >
> > I don't like the hogged pins at all as they prevent me from unloading
> > pinctrl-single.. But the patch seems fine to me:
> 
> Hm? I think the hogged pins are the *only* pins we can
> reliably release when unloading the driver, look:

In most cases all the pins can be released reliably if
the pinctrl driver won't do anything with the pins on
release.

After all that's what bootloaders have been doing for
ages :)

> void pinctrl_unregister(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev)
> {
> (...)
>         if (!IS_ERR(pctldev->p))
>                 pinctrl_put(pctldev->p);
> 
> That releases all hogged pinctrl handles when unloading
> a pinctrl driver.

Hmm maybe I need to try it again. The last time I tried
I had to comment those out, but that was a while back.
And I probably had also some other hack to release pins.

Regards,

Tony