[PATCH v2] drivers/pinctrl: grab default handles from device core

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Thu Jan 17 11:30:19 EST 2013


On 01/16/2013 05:59 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hmm. It's causing a lot of engineers here a lot of trouble, since they
>> all see linux-next won't boot, and haven't been paying enough attention
>> to know which commit to revert:-(. Lots of lost productivity:-(
>>
>> Simon, the offending commit:
>>
>> 6d3ef6b drivers/pinctrl: grab default handles from device core
>>
>> is still in next-20130116. Can you please remove it?
> 
> Not that this should be in the SH tree, but I have merged your fix
> to the pinctrl tree and it should be in -next, does it fix the problem?

There were two problems; one was the issues handling hogs during DT->map
conversion, for which you applied a patch. The other was the crashes due
to incorrect devm_* usage and interactions with -EPROBE_DEFER in the
patch which Simon applied, which requires that patch to be revised.

> Mainly asking because once Greg ACKs that patch I want to
> put it into the pinctrl tree...



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