[PATCH v2 05/12] Document: dt: binding: imx: update pinctrl doc for imx6sll

[Jacky Bai]

> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] Document: dt: binding: imx: update pinctrl doc
> for imx6sll
> 
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 3:57 AM, Jacky Bai <ping.bai at nxp.com> wrote:
> 
> > Another thing is that we can use a pins-tool program developed by NXP
> > to  generate the pinctrl configuration code that can be used directly
> > in dts. This tiny program can avoid pin function conflict. As on i.MX,
> > there are so may pins, each pin can be used for up 8  function.
> > Configuring the pins is a time-consuming work.  This tools is very useful for
> customer to generate the dts code.
> 
> I understand, but every silicon vendor has such a tool, all are different,
> proprietary and unfriendly to programmers and open source developers, who
> need to understand how the hardware is working without magic tools and
> secret data sheets to fix bugs.
> 
> For the people working with maintaining the code it is paramount that DTS files
> are self-descriptive.
> 

OK.  Thanks for your comments.  Adding generic-pinconf in imx pinctrl needs some time
to finish and the legacy method still need be here even if generic-pinconf is added. 
Do you plan to pick this legacy binding patch for now?

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij