[PATCH RFC] pinctrl: at91

Ludovic Desroches ludovic.desroches at atmel.com
Mon Jan 19 02:30:46 PST 2015


On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:12:45AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Ludovic Desroches
> <ludovic.desroches at atmel.com> wrote:
> 
> > From my point of view, it is two distinct topics. One is a very
> > important fix because our SAMA5D4 device is not booting without it. The
> > other one is a proper way to manage gpio ranges but alone I don't think
> > it can solve my issue.
> 
> Can you make me a minimal, sane patch that fixes the boot regression?
> 
> I hate regressions so these need to be fixed first...
> 
> The rest we can discuss I guess.
> 
> Or is it not possible to solve the boot regression without the larger
> fix?

No I don't think we can have a smaller patch than this one to fix it.
Next step is to decide if we go further as you suggested, knowing that we
would have to modify the device tree. Moreover we will have to rework
our pinctrl driver (or write a new one) since we will have new pio
controller on future devices.

Regards

Ludovic



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