Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: sh-pfc: r8a7796: Add group for AVB MDIO and MII pins

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Laurent,

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 12:02 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 Apr 2017 11:49:06 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Group the AVB pins into similar groups as found in other sh-pfc drivers.
>> The pins can not be muxed between functions other than AVB, but their
>> drive strengths can be controlled.
>>
>> The group avb_mdc containing ADV_MDC and ADV_MDIO is called avb_mdio on
>> other SoCs.  In pfc-r8a7796 the avb_mdc group already existed and is in
>> use in DT. Therefore add the ADV_MDIO pin to the existing group instead
>> of renaming it.
>
> This clearly shows that we need a few kernel releases to test PFC-related code
> and DT before we can commit to an ABI. How do you think we should handle this
> ?

That's a difficult question ;-)

For now I'd like to treat R-Car M3-W the same as H3.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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