[PATCH RESEND 4/5] Documentation: add the Marvell Berlin pinctrl documentation

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Fri Apr 11 01:22:18 PDT 2014


On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:12:59AM +0200, Antoine Ténart wrote:
> Hi Jisheng,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 02:33:18PM +0800, Jisheng Zhang wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 06:07:53 -0700
> > Antoine Ténart <antoine.tenart at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > > +Required subnode-properties:
> > > +- berlin,group: a string describing the group's name.
> > > +- berlin,function: the function used to mux the group.
> > 
> > Would it be better to s/function/mode? Because in mrvl internal technology
> > discussion and docs, we usually say "set pinmux Gy as mode z".
> 
> The pinctrl framework uses 'function', so I guess it's better not to introduce
> an other keyword that may confuse people.

Agreed. DT is a standard, Marvell datasheets are just datasheets.

> But I agree this is not what's used in the Marvell's docs. What do
> you think about we mention it in this documentation ?

Or ask for the datahsheet to be changed :-)

   Andrew



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