From: s.hauer@pengutronix.de (Sascha Hauer)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] ARM: dts: mt8135: Add pinctrl node for mt8135.
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 07:32:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140926053255.GL4992@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140924124044.GC4992@pengutronix.de>
Linus,
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 02:40:44PM +0200, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > I haven't got to reviewing the driver, but this looks just wrong.
> >
> > Have the magic numbers in the driver.
> >
> > Use strings to describe functions, not integers.
>
> Interrupts, clocks, gpios, dma channels, nearly everything in the device tree is
> arbitrarily numbered. Instead of "irq-i2c0" we have <0 36 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>
> in the device tree. These numbers can be resolved efficiently in the
> driver by shifting them to get a bitmask or by adding them as offset to
> a register base.
> Why do you want to make pinctrl different? Thanks to the recently
> introduced defines in the device trees these numbers are not magic at
> all anymore.
Any opinions on this?
Sascha
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-23 3:39 [PATCH v2 0/4] Add Mediatek SoC Pinctrl/GPIO driver for MT8135 Hongzhou.Yang
2014-09-23 3:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] arm: mediatek: Add config option for mediatek SoCs Hongzhou.Yang
2014-09-23 3:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] ARM: mediatek: Add Pinctrl/GPIO driver for mt8135 Hongzhou.Yang
2014-10-02 13:38 ` Linus Walleij
2014-10-06 10:35 ` Joe.C
2014-10-21 9:08 ` Linus Walleij
2014-09-23 3:39 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] dt-bindings: Add pinctrl bindings for mt65xx/mt81xx Hongzhou.Yang
2014-10-02 14:00 ` Linus Walleij
2014-10-02 14:41 ` Lucas Stach
2014-10-21 8:45 ` Linus Walleij
2014-09-23 3:39 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] ARM: dts: mt8135: Add pinctrl node for mt8135 Hongzhou.Yang
2014-09-23 13:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-23 13:58 ` Joe.C
2014-09-23 14:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2014-09-23 14:29 ` Joe.C
2014-09-23 14:55 ` Sascha Hauer
2014-09-23 14:16 ` Chen-Yu Tsai
2014-09-23 15:08 ` Joe.C
2014-09-24 11:23 ` Linus Walleij
2014-09-24 12:40 ` Sascha Hauer
2014-09-26 5:32 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2014-10-02 14:02 ` Linus Walleij
2014-10-02 14:28 ` Lucas Stach
2014-10-21 8:58 ` Linus Walleij
2014-10-06 7:18 ` Sascha Hauer
2014-10-21 9:02 ` Linus Walleij
2014-09-23 13:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] Add Mediatek SoC Pinctrl/GPIO driver for MT8135 Matthias Brugger
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