Re: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: pinmux: Don't free pins requested by other devices in pinmux_disable_setting.

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 08/12/2013 12:10 AM, Sonic Zhang wrote:
> From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
> 
> One peripheral may share part of its pins with the 2nd
> peripheral and the other pins with the 3rd. If it requests all pins
> when part of them has already be requested and owned by the 2nd
> peripheral, this request fails and pinmux_disable_setting() is called.
> The pinmux_disable_setting() frees all pins of the first peripheral
> without checking if the pin is owned by itself or the 2nd, which
> results in the malfunction of the 2nd peripheral driver.

This patch looks conceptually fine at a quick glance, but ...

> diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/core.h b/drivers/pinctrl/core.h

> @@ -154,6 +154,7 @@ struct pin_desc {
>  	const char *mux_owner;
>  	const struct pinctrl_setting_mux *mux_setting;
>  	const char *gpio_owner;
> +	const struct pinctrl_setting *owning_setting

... I think you can use the existing "mux_setting" field instead of
adding a new "owning_setting" field.