[PATCH 07/15] ARM: dts: kirkwood: consolidate common pinctrl settings

Sebastian Hesselbarth sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com
Wed Apr 30 12:54:00 PDT 2014


On 04/30/2014 09:44 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 09:39:41PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> On 04/30/2014 06:42 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:56:34PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>>>> All SoCs have the same pinctrl setting for NAND, UART0/1, SPI, TWSI0,
>>>> and GBE1. Move it to the common pinctrl node that we now have.
> 
>> Yes, there are already some boards (e.g. t5325 with spi0) overwriting
>> pinctrl settings instead of overwriting the pinctrl-0 property. I
>> thought, I keep this behavior and note it above each pinctrl node in
>> some of the following patches.
> 
> That all makes sense, I think the commit message just seemed to say
> something else.

Well, this patch is about moving the pinctrl nodes to the common SoC
dtsi. The next 6 patches are about setting the default pinctrl property.

> Maybe more like:
> 
> NAND and TWSI0 have only one valid pin control choice on Kirkwood,
> move those definitions into the common dtsi.
> 
> For UART0/1 and SPI, which have two choices, move the definition that
> is used in the majority of the board files into the common dtsi.
> Board files that are different will override.

Ok, I see. Well, strictly speaking the setting node itself is always
valid, no matter if the board uses it. So that is why I first moved
them into kirkwood.dtsi and did set the pinctrl-0 property in the
later patches, e.g. commit message of Patch 9 reads:

"""
Most boards use the default UART0/1 pinctrl setting without RTS/CTS.
Add the pinctrl setting to the toplevel SoC UART nodes and put a note
in front of the corresponding pinctrl node to overwrite the setting
on board level. Currently, both boards using a different UART pinctrl
setting (Openblocks A6, A7) already overwrite the pinctrl node.
"""

But I can, of course, reword this commit message.

Sebastian




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