From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucas Stach Subject: Re: [PATCH v7] pinctrl: imx27: imx27 pincontrol driver Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 10:28:01 +0100 Message-ID: <1383816481.4115.2.camel@weser.hi.pengutronix.de> References: <1382950843-26066-3-git-send-email-mpa@pengutronix.de> <1383057139-25304-1-git-send-email-mpa@pengutronix.de> <20131107091212.GH15098@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20131107091212.GH15098-bIcnvbaLZ9MEGnE8C9+IrQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Markus Pargmann Cc: Matt Sealey , Linus Walleij , Shawn Guo , Sascha Hauer , Kumar Gala , "devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Am Donnerstag, den 07.11.2013, 10:12 +0100 schrieb Markus Pargmann: > On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:54:02AM -0600, Matt Sealey wrote: [...] > > > > Would it be so bad to implement this as a regmap and have two drivers > > access the same regmap on the Linux side? You don't need two nodes for > > that, and the IOMUX definitions can live under the GPIO node. There is > > NOTHING stopping two drivers on Linux matching the same compatible > > property. Locking and coordination in software of a single IP block > > used by two drivers shouldn't be arbitrated by the device tree. > > I am not sure if it is practical to use the GPIO nodes for the IOMUX > driver. There are actually 6 GPIO nodes. This would lead to 6 > iomux controllers? The different pin functions may be distributed over > different controllers then. > > The first version of this series [1] was designed to have a iomux node > with 6 gpio subnodes. Why was this changed? Having two different DT nodes requesting the same IO region is certainly the wrong thing to do. Regards, Lucas -- Pengutronix e.K. | Lucas Stach | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-5076 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html