Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] pinctrl: qcom: handle tiles for ACPI boot

[Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 06:14:09PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 10:45:27PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 04:08:09PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 09:26:21PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > > > It's not always the case that DT and ACPI describe hardware resource in
> > > > the same schema, even for a single platform.  For example, on SC8180X,
> > > > DT uses the tiles schema while ACPI describe memory resource as a single
> > > > region.  It patches msm_pinctrl_probe() function to map tiles regions
> > > > only for DT.  While for ACPI, it maps the single memory resource and
> > > > calculate tile bases with offsets passed from SoC data.
> > > 
> > > ...
> > > 
> > > > +#include <linux/acpi.h>
> > > 
> > > There are at least two possibilities to avoid this:
> > 
> > So could you explain why we should avoid including this header?
> 
> Here you can include it, but it's quite huge in order to have just one little
> function out of it. But main point is it seems that relying on firmware type
> for the tiles support is fragile.

Okay, I'm not entirely happy about the tiles checking for so many
conditions, so looked for other way around.  It turns out that
pinctrl-sdm845 driver sets an example for not using tiles at all.  I
will send v3 to drop this tiles thing completely.

Shawn