[PATCH 04/13] pinctrl: tegra: Only set the gpio range if needed
Linus Walleij
linus.walleij at linaro.org
Fri Jul 17 01:04:11 PDT 2015
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Tomeu Vizoso
<tomeu.vizoso at collabora.com> wrote:
> On 13 July 2015 at 22:14, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Tomeu Vizoso
>> <tomeu.vizoso at collabora.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If the gpio DT node has the gpio-ranges property, the range will be
>>> added by the gpio core and doesn't need to be added by the pinctrl
>>> driver.
>>>
>>> By having the gpio-ranges property, we have an explicit dependency from
>>> the gpio node to the pinctrl node and we can stop using the deprecated
>>> pinctrl_add_gpio_range() function.
>>>
>>> Note that when the GPIO device gets probed before the associated
>>> princtrl device, the gpio core actually won't register the gpio range.
>>> Thus, this patch is only safe to be merged after we have in place a way
>>> to assure that gpio devices are probed after their associated pinctrl
>>> devices (such as ordered probing).
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso at collabora.com>
>>
>> This doesn't look like it would hurt, but need Stephen's opinion
>> on it, and I think he's on vacation. Would check with next-in-line
>> Tegra maintainer, Thierry/Alexandre?
>
> Sorry about that, but I have split these changes out into their own
> series after people complained about it.
>
> Have just sent a new version which already has Stephen's ack:
>
> https://lkml.kernel.org/g/1436862596-27730-1-git-send-email-tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com
I don't see Stephen's ACK on them, where is it? It's not in the
patch and I don't see it as response to the patches.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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