[PATCH v3 2/3] pinctrl: bcm: Add STB family pin controller driver

[Florian Fainelli]

On 8/21/25 08:36, Andrea della Porta wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> 
> On 11:18 Tue 19 Aug     , Stefan Wahren wrote:
>> Hi Andrea,
>>
>> Am 11.08.25 um 16:46 schrieb Andrea della Porta:
>>> From: "Ivan T. Ivanov" <iivanov at suse.de>
>>>
>>> This driver provide pin muxing and configuration functionality
>>> for BCM2712 SoC used by RPi5. According to [1] this chip is an
>>> instance of the one used in Broadcom STB  product line.
>> i'm not sure about the whole driver naming. The cover letter describe it as
>> "pin control driver for BCM2712 SoC", but this patch is described as "STB
>> family pin controller driver". So as a reviewer, I'm a little bit confused
>> of the domain of this driver. Is it for a single SoC or really for a whole
>> family of many SoCs?
> 
> It seems that this is indeed a whole family of which BCM2712 is the (first?)
> incarnation. I'm not really aware whether there exist other physical
> implementations but I'll amend the comment accordingly.
> Please also see:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d6ab66cf-09ac-4f53-9102-11f207d16db5@broadcom.com/

It's not the first, far from it, that pinctrl/pinmux design dates back 
to the first Broadcom STB SoC (BCM7038).
-- 
Florian