[PATCH v2 1/3] ARM: imx: Allow user to disable pinctrl

Esben Haabendal esben at geanix.com
Thu Sep 26 00:28:33 PDT 2024


Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> writes:

> On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM Esben Haabendal <esben at geanix.com> wrote:
>
>> Making pinctrl drivers and subsequently the pinctrl framework
>> user-controllable, allows building a kernel without this.
>> While in many (most) cases, this could make the system unbootable, it
>> does allow building smaller kernels for those situations where picntrl
>> is not needed.
>>
>> One such situation is when building a kernel for NXP LS1021A systems,
>> which does not have run-time controllable pinctrl, so pinctrl framework
>> and drivers are 100% dead-weight.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Esben Haabendal <esben at geanix.com>
>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
>
> I guess this needs to be merged through the SoC tree.

Anything more I need to make that happen?

/Esben



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