[PATCH 0/2] get pinctrl more flexible for per pin muxing controllers

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Wed Jun 10 00:33:20 PDT 2015


On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at atmel.com> wrote:
> Le 04/05/2015 10:56, Ludovic Desroches a écrit :
>>
>> The way pins, groups and functions are tied is too constraining for some
>> controllers. It concerns mainly the ones we don't care about groups and
>> functions, each pin can be muxed to any functions.
>> The goal of these two patches is too remove some of the constraints.
>>
>> I have added the prototype of a pin controller and device tree to show the
>> way I want to use these changes. I couldn't test it on boards using generic
>> pinconf so I am not sure that I don't break something...
>>
>>
>> Ludovic Desroches (4):
>>   pinctrl: change function behavior for per pin muxing controllers
>>   pinctrl: introduce complex pin description
>
> Linus,
>
> Ludovic sent this series nearly one month ago. It was posted after a RFC
> series on the same topic two months ago. As we don't see any comment on
> neither of them we assume that it's okay to include them.

It's a quite big patch and I need help reviewing it and thinking of
some possible consequences.

Stephen, can you give me a hand with this?

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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