Re: [PATCH 0/3] Renesas RZ PFC and GPIO driver

[Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:46:31AM +0000, Chris Brandt wrote:
> Hi Jacopo,
> 
> On Tuesday, January 10, 2017, Jacopo Mondi wrote:
> > So, I guess what direction to take depends on whether or not we're going
> > to see more hardware with a per-pin configuration that would benefit from
> > this new rz-pfc driver (it seems so) and if this justify splitting sh-pfc
> > in two, a group-based one for R-Car devices (and all devices there
> > already) and a new pin-based one.
> 
> Well, since I'm the one with the "renesas.com" email address, I'll try to
> see if I can figure out if the R-Car PFC can be changed to something else for
> R-Car Gen4. Same goes for RZ/G. Sometimes the chip designers just keep doing
> the same thing over and over again because they don't get any feedback from
> the SW guys.
> 
> 
> > Or maybe we can tie pin-based configuration in sh-pfc and it's me not
> > seeing how to do that.
> 
> At some point....we do need to leave the "sh-" name behind as I don't really
> see much of a future for SH4 devices. Using something like pinctrl-renesas
> is probably a better name. Although, anyone who's watched the semiconductor
> business over the years knows that names never stay the same. (sigh)

FWIW I agree "renesas-" makes more sense than "sh-" for all Renesas ARM
based SoCs.