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From: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>, Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ASoC: core: Configure pin muxing via pinctrl when registering a DAI
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:38:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50607E83.6010805@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdZ=_qm-g-LDth8m43Cug4LoMsD3FuvTiiyQgP=chGTAUw@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/24/2012 02:34 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> On 09/21/2012 07:16 AM, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>>>
>>> pinctrl_get_select() returns with a pointer to struct pinctrl. If the platform
>>> does not have CONFIG_PINCTRL enabled it will return with NULL.
>>> If no pinctrl has been specified for the device it will return with error
>>> (-ENODEV).
>>> Neither of these cases should be considered as error. We do print out with
>>> dev_info() to notify the developer, but having pinctrl mux should not be
>>> mandatory.
>>
>> Indeed - what about a platform like Tegra which has pinctrl enabled, yet
>> doesn't specify any pinctrl configuration for any device other than the
>> pin controller itself?
> 
> It would be fixed by calling pinctrl_provide_dummies() right?
> 
> Not that it's elegant or anything ...

Right - calling pinctrl_provide_dummies() ends up telling the pinctrl
core never to return an error even when it "should". I don't think it's
appropriate to use that API at all except to help out transitioning a
particular SoC to use pinctrl.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-24 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-21  7:54 [PATCH] ASoC: core: Configure pin muxing via pinctrl when registering a DAI Peter Ujfalusi
2012-09-21 11:13 ` Mark Brown
2012-09-21 13:16   ` Peter Ujfalusi
2012-09-21 14:55     ` Peter Ujfalusi
2012-09-22 15:23       ` Mark Brown
2012-09-21 16:23     ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-22 15:28       ` Mark Brown
2012-09-23  3:23         ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-24  9:20           ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-24 10:17             ` Mark Brown
2012-09-24 14:37               ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-25 11:11                 ` Mark Brown
2012-09-25 11:24                   ` Peter Ujfalusi
2012-09-25 11:43                     ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-25 11:43                     ` Mark Brown
2012-09-25 11:56                       ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-25 12:24                         ` Mark Brown
2012-09-25 17:00                     ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-24 15:41               ` Stephen Warren
2012-09-25 11:22                 ` Mark Brown
2012-09-24  8:34       ` Linus Walleij
2012-09-24 10:23         ` Mark Brown
2012-09-24 15:38         ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2012-09-22 15:18     ` Mark Brown

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