[PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional
Leo Li
pku.leo at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 09:47:37 PDT 2016
On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:34:31PM -0700, Stefan Agner wrote:
>> Yeah it is a bit a wording thing: In my understanding, pinctrl is
>> required on SoC's witch have a pin controller... It is just that the
>> driver does not need to get the pinctrl by itself because the stack is
>> taking care of it implicitly. And yes, that makes the particular example
>> not a real world example.
>
> At first I thought, too, that it's a fatal problem if getting the
> pinctrl stuff fails. IMHO that shows that the comments (or the code) are
> still not good enough.
Ya. If it has confused more than one people, it is likely to confuse
more. I agree with you that we should make it more clear.
Thanks,
Leo
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