[PATCH v2 2/3] pinctrl: sunxi: Disable strict mode for old pinctrl drivers

Linus Walleij linus.walleij at linaro.org
Tue Oct 31 01:45:54 PDT 2017


On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 10:53 PM, Maxime Ripard
<maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> Old pinctrl drivers will need to disable strict mode for various reasons,
> among which:
>   - Some DT will still have a pinctrl group for each GPIO used, which will
>     be rejected by pin_request. While we could remove those nodes, we still
>     have to deal with old DTs.
>   - Some GPIOs on these boards need to have their pin configuration changed
>     (for bias or current), and there's no clear migration path
>
> Let's disable the strict mode on those SoCs so that there's no breakage.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij



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