[PATCH v2 0/3] Support qcom pinctrl protected pins

Timur Tabi timur at codeaurora.org
Tue Feb 20 08:45:03 PST 2018


On 01/25/2018 07:13 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> This patchset proposes a solution to describing the valid
> pins for a pin controller in a semi-generic way so that qcom
> platforms can expose the pins that are really available.
> 
> Typically, this has been done by having drivers and firmware
> descriptions only use pins they know they have access to, and that
> still works now because we no longer read the pin direction at
> boot. But there are still some userspace drivers and debugfs facilities
> that don't know what pins are available and attempt to read everything
> they can. On qcom platforms, this may lead to a system hang, which isn't
> very nice behavior, even if root is the only user that can trigger it.

Any progress on this patch set?  Stephen no longer works for Qualcomm, 
so I don't know what the next step is, and I really want this feature in 
4.17 (we've missed so many merge windows already).

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