From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dong Aisheng Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] mmc: sdhci-imx-esdhc: convert to use pinctrl subsystem Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:27:08 +0800 Message-ID: <20120502032707.GA1708@shlinux2.ap.freescale.net> References: <1335529578-14507-1-git-send-email-b29396@freescale.com> <1335529578-14507-4-git-send-email-b29396@freescale.com> <20120502015124.GP2194@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120502015124.GP2194@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Shawn Guo Cc: Linus Walleij , Dong Aisheng-B29396 , "linus.walleij@stericsson.com" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , "kernel@pengutronix.de" , "s.hauer@pengutronix.de" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:51:26AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:12:58AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > > If I cannot apply it there are two ways to proceed: > > 1. Wait for next merge window > > 2. Pull pinctrl into i.MX tree > > > Yes, if we would not wait for next merge window, I prefer to ask Arnd, > Olof to pull pinctrl into arm-soc as a dependency and we convert imx > drivers to the subsystem in there. > > BTW, this patch should be split into two. Adding dummy pinctrl for > imx should be one patch, and sdhci-imx-esdhc should be separate one. > And we may want to come up a series to convert all outstanding imx > driver to use pinctrl API, one patch for one driver with subsystem > maintainer Cc on the corresponding driver patch. > I can split it. One question is that will driver convert patch go via subsystem tree or soc tree? If adding dummy pinctrl for imx goes via soc tree but sdhci-imx-esdhc goes via mmc driver, the next one may break. Regards Dong Aisheng