Re: [PATCH 0/1] add devm_of_clk_get() and devm_of_clk_get_by_name() functions

[Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>]

On 10/01, Paul Osmialowski wrote:
> Hi Stephen,
> 
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> 
> > In the pinctrl node we would have
> > 
> >  	pinctrl {
> >  		compatible = "fsl,kenetis70-pinctrl";
> >  		reg = <0x40049000 0x2000>;
> >  		clocks = <&sim SIM_CLK_SCGC5_PORTA>, <&sim SIM_CLK_SCGC5_PORTB>;
> > 
> > 		uart_default: uart_default {
> > 			mux {
> > 				pins = "porta_3", "portb_2";
> > 				function = "uart";
> > 			};
> > 
> > 			rx {
> > 				bias-pull-pin-default;
> > 			};
> > 		};
> >  	};
> > 
> > And then in the uart node we would have
> > 
> > 	uart@f00000 {
> > 		compatible = "vendor,uart";
> > 		reg = <0xf00000 0x100>;
> > 		pinctrl-names = "default";
> > 		pinctrl-0 = <&uart_default>;
> > 	};
> > 
> 
> Seems like there's another thing I wanted to avoid. The correctness of 
> these pin strings will not be checked until the runtime. They need to 
> properly encode pin bank and pin number within the bank. No chances it can 
> be validated at .dtb build time. But I guess this is proper way for 
> generic pinctrl bindings. I mostly (but not completely) based my approach 
> on rockchip examples (e.g. rk3288) but it looks like they are not entirely 
> sane.

I don't see how it could be validated with the <&port pin
function config> binding either. Let's hope that people test
their code, including whatever dts files they produce.

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