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From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: An extremely simplified pinctrl bindings proposal
Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:04:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120206210456.GV1426@atomide.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdZthbejmTqRJAWHb8jU-p8LPT_+zj_CY1q0voMb4FKz2Q@mail.gmail.com>

* Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> [120206 11:25]:
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> wrote:
> 
> > So far the only
> > change needed for pinctrl drivers containing no data is that
> > we should make the string names optional and structure debugfs
> > around the physical register addresses instead. I'm basically
> > just setting the mux register physcal address as the pin name
> > for now to work around this.
> 
> OK please make a patch to do it really optional in the core if
> you find the time, it seems like a good change anyway, because
> it will make it possible to reduce some current pin name lists
> quite easily.

OK, will take a look at that.

> If you need to change the layout of debugfs just do it.
> 
> I actually had something like unnamed pins in the early patches
> to register a bunch of anonymous pins ranges, so why not bring
> it back in.

Yeah it seems that the mux registers should be listed, it might
require a little bit of thinking for cases where one register
controls multiple pins. So maybe we need just a new entry for
mux registers?

Regards,

Tony

  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-06 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-05  5:31 An extremely simplified pinctrl bindings proposal Stephen Warren
2012-02-05  6:07 ` Richard Zhao
2012-02-06  3:07 ` Thomas Abraham
2012-02-06  5:44   ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-06  4:20 ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-06  5:53   ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-06 17:29     ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-06 19:03       ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-06 19:56         ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-06 21:04           ` Tony Lindgren [this message]
2012-02-06 23:15             ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-06 23:57               ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-07  1:07                 ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-07  5:28         ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-06 19:41     ` Mark Brown
2012-02-06 18:57 ` Tony Lindgren
2012-02-06 19:05 ` Mitch Bradley
2012-02-06 19:26   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-06 21:24     ` Mitch Bradley
2012-02-07  5:33   ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-07  7:07     ` Mitch Bradley

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