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From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: Shiraz Hashim <shiraz.hashim@st.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	linus.walleij@linaro.org, grant.likely@secretlab.ca,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, spear-devel@list.st.com,
	Vipul Kumar Samar <vipulkumar.samar@st.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: stmpe: Add DT support for stmpe gpio
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:28:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121126112823.GI12782@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121123123048.GM5384@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, 23 Nov 2012, Shiraz Hashim wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:14:13PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> > > >> +             if (np)
> > > >> +                     of_property_read_u32(np, "st,norequest-mask",
> > > >> +                                     &pdata->norequest_mask);
> > > >
> > > > Can you explain to me what this does?
> > > 
> > > You mean pdata->norequest_mask?  It marks few gpios as unusable.
> > > Because these pads might be used by other blocks of stmpe.
> > 
> > I'm not sure if that should be set with DT or not.
> > 
> > Second opinion anyone?
> 
> This is a board dependent parameter which just informs gpio driver
> about pins, which must not be requested. It may happen for a stmpe
> variant where such gpio pins are multiplexed with some other
> function.
> 
> Hence it must be part of DT itself.

Doesn't pinctrl normally handle this kind of stuff?

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-26 11:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-23  5:51 [PATCH] gpio: stmpe: Add DT support for stmpe gpio Viresh Kumar
2012-11-23 10:34 ` Lee Jones
2012-11-23 10:41   ` Lee Jones
     [not found]     ` <20121123104140.GP17471-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-23 10:47       ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-23 10:43   ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-23 12:14     ` Lee Jones
     [not found]       ` <20121123121413.GB22268-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2012-11-23 12:25         ` Viresh Kumar
2012-11-23 15:45           ` Lee Jones
2012-11-23 12:30       ` Shiraz Hashim
2012-11-26 11:28         ` Lee Jones [this message]
2012-11-26 11:32           ` Shiraz Hashim
2012-12-01 16:35             ` Linus Walleij
2012-12-01 18:31               ` Shiraz Hashim
2012-12-01 19:34           ` Linus Walleij
     [not found]             ` <CACRpkda6=UPW+Xy9ztkAtFvCMySt4iR8YabYNNTdnZBpVc98rQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2012-12-01 19:55               ` Linus Walleij

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