[PATCH 3/4] [v6] pinctrl: qcom: disable GPIO groups with no pins

[Timur Tabi]

On 11/17/2017 03:42 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>> Patch 1 prevents gpiolib from accessing GPIOs that haven't been
>> properly requested.
>>
>> Patch 2 adds an infrastructure for sparse GPIO maps
>>
>> Patch 3 updates pinctrl-msm to use that expose that new infrastructure
>>
>> Patch 4 updates pinctrl-qdf2xxx to work with the new feature in pinctrl-msm
>>
> Ok. What path doesn't request the gpio though? If we don't have a
> path that fails to request the gpio before using it then I don't
> see the need for this patch.

Sorry, I don't understand your question.  Patches 2-4 are all about 
creating a sparse GPIO map.  All patch 1 does is stop initializing all 
the GPIOs with an initial direction.

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