Re: [PATCH 01/02] sh-pfc: Add r8a73a4 pinmux support

Re: [PATCH 01/02] sh-pfc: Add r8a73a4 pinmux support

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Magnus,

Thanks for the patch.

On Monday 18 March 2013 23:50:39 Magnus Damm wrote:
> From: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
> 
> Add initial PFC support for the r8a73a4 SoC.
> 
> At this point only GPIO interface is supported, move to
> newer interfaces planned as incremental changes.

I'm fine with splitting PFC support for the r8a73a4 into a first patch that 
implements the old API and incremental changes that move to the new API, to 
making partial backporting easier. However, to avoid increasing my already 
high work load related to the PFC driver, I don't want to push this patch to 
mainline without the incremental changes that convert the driver to the 
pinctrl API. Could you thus please submit a v2 that will include pinctrl 
support ?

(I believe this summarizes the discussion we had yesterday, please let me know 
if there had been any misunderstanding).

> Original authors are Morimoto-san with help from Yoshii-san,
> thanks to them for the heavy lifting. Adjusted by Magnus
> to work together with updated code in drivers/pinctrl.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Yoshii <takashi.yoshii.zj@renesas.com>
> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>

The code looks OK to me. I don't have a copy of the r8a73a4 datasheet so I 
can't verify all the details.

> ---
> 
>  Written against "next" renesas.git 811689afc214564c4a5f238ecf4d8bdc0e52b615
> Requires "r8a73a4.h" provided by
>   [PATCH 00/04] ARM: shmobile: r8a73a4 SoC support V2
> 
>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/include/mach/r8a73a4.h |  918 ++++++++
>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/Kconfig                |    5
>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/Makefile               |    1
>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.c                 |    3
>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.h                 |    1
>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a73a4.c          | 2826 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  6 files changed, 3754 insertions(+)

Could you please split this in two patches, one for arch/arm and one for 
drivers/pinctrl ?

The following comments apply to the pinctrl API only, they're hints for the v2 
mentioned above.

> --- 0006/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/include/mach/r8a73a4.h
> +++ work/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/include/mach/r8a73a4.h	2013-03-18
> 22:38:11.000000000 +0900 @@ -1,6 +1,924 @@
>  #ifndef __ASM_R8A73A4_H__
>  #define __ASM_R8A73A4_H__
> 
> +/*
> + * Pin Function Controller:
> + *	GPIO_FN_xx - GPIO used to select pin function
> + *	GPIO_PORTxx - GPIO mapped to real I/O pin on CPU
> + */
> +enum {
> +
> +	/* PORT */
> +	GPIO_PORT0, GPIO_PORT1, GPIO_PORT2, GPIO_PORT3, GPIO_PORT4,
> +	GPIO_PORT5, GPIO_PORT6, GPIO_PORT7, GPIO_PORT8, GPIO_PORT9,

[snip]

The whole enum should be removed when moving to the pinctrl API. Port numbers 
will be used directly instead of the GPIO_PORTx values.

> --- /dev/null
> +++ work/drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a73a4.c	2013-03-18 
22:44:53.000000000

[snip]

> +const struct sh_pfc_soc_info r8a73a4_pinmux_info = {
> +	.name		= "r8a73a4_pfc",
> +
> +	.input = { PINMUX_INPUT_BEGIN, PINMUX_INPUT_END },
> +	.input_pu = { PINMUX_INPUT_PULLUP_BEGIN, PINMUX_INPUT_PULLUP_END },
> +	.input_pd = { PINMUX_INPUT_PULLDOWN_BEGIN, PINMUX_INPUT_PULLDOWN_END },

PU/PD should be handled as in

	sh-pfc: sh73a0: Add bias (pull-up/down) pinconf support
	sh-pfc: sh73a0: Remove pull-up function GPIOS

> +	.output = { PINMUX_OUTPUT_BEGIN, PINMUX_OUTPUT_END },
> +	.function = { PINMUX_FUNCTION_BEGIN, PINMUX_FUNCTION_END },
> +
> +	.pins = pinmux_pins,
> +	.nr_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(pinmux_pins),

GPIO numbers are sparse, don't forget to add ranges as in

	ARM: shmobile: sh73a0: Support sparse GPIO numbers

> +	.func_gpios = pinmux_func_gpios,
> +	.nr_func_gpios = ARRAY_SIZE(pinmux_func_gpios),

You should add functions for all the functions used by board code. See for 
instance

	sh-pfc: sh7372: Add SDHCI and MMCIF pin groups and functions

Finally you should remove support for function GPIOs as in the following 
patches (not in Simon's tree yet, they're available from my git tree at 
git://linuxtv.org/pinchartl/fbdev.git pinmux/3.9/gpio)

	sh-pfc: r8a7779: Remove function GPIO
	sh-pfc: r8a7779: Don't use GPIO enum entries
	ARM: shmobile: r8a7779: Remove all GPIOs

> +	.cfg_regs	= pinmux_config_regs,
> +	.data_regs	= pinmux_data_regs,
> +
> +	.gpio_data	= pinmux_data,
> +	.gpio_data_size	= ARRAY_SIZE(pinmux_data),
> +};

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

Re: [PATCH 01/02] sh-pfc: Add r8a73a4 pinmux support

[Magnus Damm]

Hi Laurent,

Thanks for your comments.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> Hi Magnus,
>
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> On Monday 18 March 2013 23:50:39 Magnus Damm wrote:
>> From: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
>>
>> Add initial PFC support for the r8a73a4 SoC.
>>
>> At this point only GPIO interface is supported, move to
>> newer interfaces planned as incremental changes.
>
> I'm fine with splitting PFC support for the r8a73a4 into a first patch that
> implements the old API and incremental changes that move to the new API, to
> making partial backporting easier. However, to avoid increasing my already
> high work load related to the PFC driver, I don't want to push this patch to
> mainline without the incremental changes that convert the driver to the
> pinctrl API. Could you thus please submit a v2 that will include pinctrl
> support ?

I am happy to add pinctrl support, especially when I get to control
the timing myself.

> (I believe this summarizes the discussion we had yesterday, please let me know
> if there had been any misunderstanding).

Yes, I believe it summarizes the discussion quite well. As for your
requirement of incremental changes to get code merged, I hear what
you're saying but after pondering about it a bit I must say this
really doesn't make my life any easier. I would like to discuss more
with you how to find a good middle ground without having to revert to
primitive things like holding code hostage.

>> Original authors are Morimoto-san with help from Yoshii-san,
>> thanks to them for the heavy lifting. Adjusted by Magnus
>> to work together with updated code in drivers/pinctrl.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Takashi Yoshii <takashi.yoshii.zj@renesas.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
>
> The code looks OK to me. I don't have a copy of the r8a73a4 datasheet so I
> can't verify all the details.

Thanks.

>> ---
>>
>>  Written against "next" renesas.git 811689afc214564c4a5f238ecf4d8bdc0e52b615
>> Requires "r8a73a4.h" provided by
>>   [PATCH 00/04] ARM: shmobile: r8a73a4 SoC support V2
>>
>>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/include/mach/r8a73a4.h |  918 ++++++++
>>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/Kconfig                |    5
>>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/Makefile               |    1
>>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.c                 |    3
>>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.h                 |    1
>>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a73a4.c          | 2826 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  6 files changed, 3754 insertions(+)
>
> Could you please split this in two patches, one for arch/arm and one for
> drivers/pinctrl ?

Do you mean this initial patch or the incremental PINCTRL ones? I've
looked at your incremental r8a7779 changes and they seem to be
implemented following such style.

I'm happy to split out changes the same way you're doing. But like I
mentioned above, I dislike being forced to add these as a requirement
for upstream merge. I can however live with it, and prioritize this
over for instance pending paperwork, not my problem. What I really
don't want is to invest time into something by splitting out code and
then you will ask for it all to be merged together like in the case of
GPIO.

Of course, with the same logic you can then squeeze together your own
patches too and then everyone looses - especially anyone doing bisect.
So I still think using a version control system with incremental
changes has it's clear advantages, and if we can use it to track down
the individual commit that's a nice feature to have. Especially when
it comes to correctness about these things like pinmux tables.

Anyway, regarding splitting code and headers, I don't really
understand why you want to split the header for the initial patch. I
do however realize that there are dependencies that need to be
handled. Can you outline exactly how you want it, and sync that with
the party that will merge the code (Simon?)?

So to summarize, I will adjust to split the code any way the merging
party wants it to be done. I'm not going to split it just for fun. =)

> The following comments apply to the pinctrl API only, they're hints for the v2
> mentioned above.
>
>> --- 0006/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/include/mach/r8a73a4.h
>> +++ work/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/include/mach/r8a73a4.h        2013-03-18
>> 22:38:11.000000000 +0900 @@ -1,6 +1,924 @@
>>  #ifndef __ASM_R8A73A4_H__
>>  #define __ASM_R8A73A4_H__
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Pin Function Controller:
>> + *   GPIO_FN_xx - GPIO used to select pin function
>> + *   GPIO_PORTxx - GPIO mapped to real I/O pin on CPU
>> + */
>> +enum {
>> +
>> +     /* PORT */
>> +     GPIO_PORT0, GPIO_PORT1, GPIO_PORT2, GPIO_PORT3, GPIO_PORT4,
>> +     GPIO_PORT5, GPIO_PORT6, GPIO_PORT7, GPIO_PORT8, GPIO_PORT9,
>
> [snip]
>
> The whole enum should be removed when moving to the pinctrl API. Port numbers
> will be used directly instead of the GPIO_PORTx values.

Right, thanks for clarifying.

>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ work/drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a73a4.c 2013-03-18
> 22:44:53.000000000
>
> [snip]
>
>> +const struct sh_pfc_soc_info r8a73a4_pinmux_info = {
>> +     .name           = "r8a73a4_pfc",
>> +
>> +     .input = { PINMUX_INPUT_BEGIN, PINMUX_INPUT_END },
>> +     .input_pu = { PINMUX_INPUT_PULLUP_BEGIN, PINMUX_INPUT_PULLUP_END },
>> +     .input_pd = { PINMUX_INPUT_PULLDOWN_BEGIN, PINMUX_INPUT_PULLDOWN_END },
>
> PU/PD should be handled as in
>
>         sh-pfc: sh73a0: Add bias (pull-up/down) pinconf support
>         sh-pfc: sh73a0: Remove pull-up function GPIOS

Ok, thanks for the pointer.

>> +     .output = { PINMUX_OUTPUT_BEGIN, PINMUX_OUTPUT_END },
>> +     .function = { PINMUX_FUNCTION_BEGIN, PINMUX_FUNCTION_END },
>> +
>> +     .pins = pinmux_pins,
>> +     .nr_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(pinmux_pins),
>
> GPIO numbers are sparse, don't forget to add ranges as in
>
>         ARM: shmobile: sh73a0: Support sparse GPIO numbers

Thanks.

>> +     .func_gpios = pinmux_func_gpios,
>> +     .nr_func_gpios = ARRAY_SIZE(pinmux_func_gpios),
>
> You should add functions for all the functions used by board code. See for
> instance
>
>         sh-pfc: sh7372: Add SDHCI and MMCIF pin groups and functions

I understand. The current board code is rather limited, so I guess it
should be quite easy.

> Finally you should remove support for function GPIOs as in the following
> patches (not in Simon's tree yet, they're available from my git tree at
> git://linuxtv.org/pinchartl/fbdev.git pinmux/3.9/gpio)
>
>         sh-pfc: r8a7779: Remove function GPIO
>         sh-pfc: r8a7779: Don't use GPIO enum entries
>         ARM: shmobile: r8a7779: Remove all GPIOs

Thanks for explaining how to move forward.

Cheers,

/ magnus

Re: [PATCH 01/02] sh-pfc: Add r8a73a4 pinmux support

[Laurent Pinchart]

Hi Magnus,

On Tuesday 26 March 2013 15:29:22 Magnus Damm wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Monday 18 March 2013 23:50:39 Magnus Damm wrote:
> >> From: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
> >> 
> >> Add initial PFC support for the r8a73a4 SoC.
> >> 
> >> At this point only GPIO interface is supported, move to
> >> newer interfaces planned as incremental changes.
> > 
> > I'm fine with splitting PFC support for the r8a73a4 into a first patch
> > that implements the old API and incremental changes that move to the new
> > API, to making partial backporting easier. However, to avoid increasing my
> > already high work load related to the PFC driver, I don't want to push
> > this patchto mainline without the incremental changes that convert the
> > driver to the pinctrl API. Could you thus please submit a v2 that will
> > include pinctrl support ?
> 
> I am happy to add pinctrl support, especially when I get to control the
> timing myself.

That means I will finally have an opportunity to sleep a bit, thank you :-)

> > (I believe this summarizes the discussion we had yesterday, please let me
> > know if there had been any misunderstanding).
> 
> Yes, I believe it summarizes the discussion quite well. As for your
> requirement of incremental changes to get code merged, I hear what you're
> saying but after pondering about it a bit I must say this really doesn't
> make my life any easier. I would like to discuss more with you how to find a
> good middle ground without having to revert to primitive things like holding
> code hostage.

Sure, I'm open to discussion. Please keep in mind that this is an interim 
situation only, function GPIOs should soon turn into a distant memory of a bad 
nightmare for all new platforms :-)

> >> Original authors are Morimoto-san with help from Yoshii-san,
> >> thanks to them for the heavy lifting. Adjusted by Magnus
> >> to work together with updated code in drivers/pinctrl.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Takashi Yoshii <takashi.yoshii.zj@renesas.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
> > 
> > The code looks OK to me. I don't have a copy of the r8a73a4 datasheet so I
> > can't verify all the details.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> >> ---
> >> 
> >>  Written against "next" renesas.git
> >>  811689afc214564c4a5f238ecf4d8bdc0e52b615
> >> 
> >> Requires "r8a73a4.h" provided by
> >> 
> >>   [PATCH 00/04] ARM: shmobile: r8a73a4 SoC support V2
> >>  
> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/include/mach/r8a73a4.h |  918 ++++++++
> >>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/Kconfig                |    5
> >>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/Makefile               |    1
> >>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.c                 |    3
> >>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.h                 |    1
> >>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a73a4.c          | 2826 +++++++++++++++++++
> >>  6 files changed, 3754 insertions(+)
> > 
> > Could you please split this in two patches, one for arch/arm and one for
> > drivers/pinctrl ?
> 
> Do you mean this initial patch or the incremental PINCTRL ones? I've looked
> at your incremental r8a7779 changes and they seem to be implemented
> following such style.

I'm talking about this patch. My understanding is that patches should not 
touch arch/ and drivers/ at the same time unless strictly required.

> I'm happy to split out changes the same way you're doing. But like I
> mentioned above, I dislike being forced to add these as a requirement for
> upstream merge. I can however live with it, and prioritize this over for
> instance pending paperwork, not my problem. What I really don't want is to
> invest time into something by splitting out code and then you will ask for
> it all to be merged together like in the case of GPIO.

My preference would of course to go straight to the pinctrl API without going 
through function GPIOs. As this would make partial backporting more complex 
I'm OK with splitting the code in initial patches that add PFC + function 
GPIOs support and incremental patches that replace function GPIOs with a 
proper pinctrl implementation, as in your v2.

> Of course, with the same logic you can then squeeze together your own
> patches too and then everyone looses - especially anyone doing bisect. So I
> still think using a version control system with incremental changes has it's
> clear advantages, and if we can use it to track down the individual commit
> that's a nice feature to have. Especially when it comes to correctness about
> these things like pinmux tables.

I think there was a fundamental misunderstanding. I've never meant to advocate 
for all patches being squashed together. In the particular case of your GPIO 
patch set my point was that the intermediate version didn't bring any 
additional value and made the code more complex to review.

> Anyway, regarding splitting code and headers, I don't really understand why
> you want to split the header for the initial patch. I do however realize
> that there are dependencies that need to be handled. Can you outline exactly
> how you want it, and sync that with the party that will merge the code
> (Simon?)?

Simon might be able to provide more information here. As far as I understand 
touching both arch/arm/ and drivers/ in the same patch is discouraged.

> So to summarize, I will adjust to split the code any way the merging party
> wants it to be done. I'm not going to split it just for fun. =)
> 
> > The following comments apply to the pinctrl API only, they're hints for
> > the v2 mentioned above.
> > 
> >> --- 0006/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/include/mach/r8a73a4.h
> >> +++ work/arch/arm/mach-shmobile/include/mach/r8a73a4.h        2013-03-18
> >> 22:38:11.000000000 +0900 @@ -1,6 +1,924 @@
> >> 
> >>  #ifndef __ASM_R8A73A4_H__
> >>  #define __ASM_R8A73A4_H__
> >> 
> >> +/*
> >> + * Pin Function Controller:
> >> + *   GPIO_FN_xx - GPIO used to select pin function
> >> + *   GPIO_PORTxx - GPIO mapped to real I/O pin on CPU
> >> + */
> >> +enum {
> >> +
> >> +     /* PORT */
> >> +     GPIO_PORT0, GPIO_PORT1, GPIO_PORT2, GPIO_PORT3, GPIO_PORT4,
> >> +     GPIO_PORT5, GPIO_PORT6, GPIO_PORT7, GPIO_PORT8, GPIO_PORT9,
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > The whole enum should be removed when moving to the pinctrl API. Port
> > numbers will be used directly instead of the GPIO_PORTx values.
> 
> Right, thanks for clarifying.
> 
> >> --- /dev/null
> >> +++ work/drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a73a4.c 2013-03-18
> > 
> > 22:44:53.000000000
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> >> +const struct sh_pfc_soc_info r8a73a4_pinmux_info = {
> >> +     .name           = "r8a73a4_pfc",
> >> +
> >> +     .input = { PINMUX_INPUT_BEGIN, PINMUX_INPUT_END },
> >> +     .input_pu = { PINMUX_INPUT_PULLUP_BEGIN, PINMUX_INPUT_PULLUP_END },
> >> +     .input_pd = { PINMUX_INPUT_PULLDOWN_BEGIN,
> >> PINMUX_INPUT_PULLDOWN_END },> 
> > PU/PD should be handled as in
> > 
> >         sh-pfc: sh73a0: Add bias (pull-up/down) pinconf support
> >         sh-pfc: sh73a0: Remove pull-up function GPIOS
> 
> Ok, thanks for the pointer.
> 
> >> +     .output = { PINMUX_OUTPUT_BEGIN, PINMUX_OUTPUT_END },
> >> +     .function = { PINMUX_FUNCTION_BEGIN, PINMUX_FUNCTION_END },
> >> +
> >> +     .pins = pinmux_pins,
> >> +     .nr_pins = ARRAY_SIZE(pinmux_pins),
> > 
> > GPIO numbers are sparse, don't forget to add ranges as in
> > 
> >         ARM: shmobile: sh73a0: Support sparse GPIO numbers
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> >> +     .func_gpios = pinmux_func_gpios,
> >> +     .nr_func_gpios = ARRAY_SIZE(pinmux_func_gpios),
> > 
> > You should add functions for all the functions used by board code. See for
> > instance
> > 
> >         sh-pfc: sh7372: Add SDHCI and MMCIF pin groups and functions
> 
> I understand. The current board code is rather limited, so I guess it
> should be quite easy.
> 
> > Finally you should remove support for function GPIOs as in the following
> > patches (not in Simon's tree yet, they're available from my git tree at
> > git://linuxtv.org/pinchartl/fbdev.git pinmux/3.9/gpio)
> > 
> >         sh-pfc: r8a7779: Remove function GPIO
> >         sh-pfc: r8a7779: Don't use GPIO enum entries
> >         ARM: shmobile: r8a7779: Remove all GPIOs
> 
> Thanks for explaining how to move forward.

You're welcome.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart

Re: [PATCH 01/02] sh-pfc: Add r8a73a4 pinmux support

[Magnus Damm]

Hi Laurent,

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:37 AM, Laurent Pinchart
<laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> Hi Magnus,
>
> On Tuesday 26 March 2013 15:29:22 Magnus Damm wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 9:19 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> > On Monday 18 March 2013 23:50:39 Magnus Damm wrote:
>> >> From: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
>> >>
>> >> Add initial PFC support for the r8a73a4 SoC.
>> >>
>> >> At this point only GPIO interface is supported, move to
>> >> newer interfaces planned as incremental changes.
>> >
>> > I'm fine with splitting PFC support for the r8a73a4 into a first patch
>> > that implements the old API and incremental changes that move to the new
>> > API, to making partial backporting easier. However, to avoid increasing my
>> > already high work load related to the PFC driver, I don't want to push
>> > this patchto mainline without the incremental changes that convert the
>> > driver to the pinctrl API. Could you thus please submit a v2 that will
>> > include pinctrl support ?
>>
>> I am happy to add pinctrl support, especially when I get to control the
>> timing myself.
>
> That means I will finally have an opportunity to sleep a bit, thank you :-)

You can sleep all you want when you're old! =)

>> > (I believe this summarizes the discussion we had yesterday, please let me
>> > know if there had been any misunderstanding).
>>
>> Yes, I believe it summarizes the discussion quite well. As for your
>> requirement of incremental changes to get code merged, I hear what you're
>> saying but after pondering about it a bit I must say this really doesn't
>> make my life any easier. I would like to discuss more with you how to find a
>> good middle ground without having to revert to primitive things like holding
>> code hostage.
>
> Sure, I'm open to discussion. Please keep in mind that this is an interim
> situation only, function GPIOs should soon turn into a distant memory of a bad
> nightmare for all new platforms :-)

I agree that new platforms should be converted. Regarding nightmares,
you should have seen the PFC setup code that was spread out across the
board code soon 5 years ago before I introduced (the now hopefully
soon replaced) function GPIO abstraction. =)

>> >> Original authors are Morimoto-san with help from Yoshii-san,
>> >> thanks to them for the heavy lifting. Adjusted by Magnus
>> >> to work together with updated code in drivers/pinctrl.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Takashi Yoshii <takashi.yoshii.zj@renesas.com>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
>> >
>> > The code looks OK to me. I don't have a copy of the r8a73a4 datasheet so I
>> > can't verify all the details.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> >> ---
>> >>
>> >>  Written against "next" renesas.git
>> >>  811689afc214564c4a5f238ecf4d8bdc0e52b615
>> >>
>> >> Requires "r8a73a4.h" provided by
>> >>
>> >>   [PATCH 00/04] ARM: shmobile: r8a73a4 SoC support V2
>> >>
>> >>  arch/arm/mach-shmobile/include/mach/r8a73a4.h |  918 ++++++++
>> >>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/Kconfig                |    5
>> >>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/Makefile               |    1
>> >>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.c                 |    3
>> >>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/core.h                 |    1
>> >>  drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a73a4.c          | 2826 +++++++++++++++++++
>> >>  6 files changed, 3754 insertions(+)
>> >
>> > Could you please split this in two patches, one for arch/arm and one for
>> > drivers/pinctrl ?
>>
>> Do you mean this initial patch or the incremental PINCTRL ones? I've looked
>> at your incremental r8a7779 changes and they seem to be implemented
>> following such style.
>
> I'm talking about this patch. My understanding is that patches should not
> touch arch/ and drivers/ at the same time unless strictly required.

I agree that it's nice as long as you can avoid that.

Actually, I would prefer not to not have the enums in that location at
all. When the PFC tables were kept under arch/arm/mach-shmobile I
didn't mind so much having the PFC enums in include files under mach/,
but once they were moved out into driver/pinctrl/sh-pfc/ we still
seemed to keep those includes under mach/. Of course, the goal is to
remove the enums in the long run so perhaps it doesn't make much sense
to first move them to soon after remove them.

>> I'm happy to split out changes the same way you're doing. But like I
>> mentioned above, I dislike being forced to add these as a requirement for
>> upstream merge. I can however live with it, and prioritize this over for
>> instance pending paperwork, not my problem. What I really don't want is to
>> invest time into something by splitting out code and then you will ask for
>> it all to be merged together like in the case of GPIO.
>
> My preference would of course to go straight to the pinctrl API without going
> through function GPIOs. As this would make partial backporting more complex
> I'm OK with splitting the code in initial patches that add PFC + function
> GPIOs support and incremental patches that replace function GPIOs with a
> proper pinctrl implementation, as in your v2.

I would also prefer to go straight to the pinctrl API, but as you said
about the back porting...

>> Of course, with the same logic you can then squeeze together your own
>> patches too and then everyone looses - especially anyone doing bisect. So I
>> still think using a version control system with incremental changes has it's
>> clear advantages, and if we can use it to track down the individual commit
>> that's a nice feature to have. Especially when it comes to correctness about
>> these things like pinmux tables.
>
> I think there was a fundamental misunderstanding. I've never meant to advocate
> for all patches being squashed together. In the particular case of your GPIO
> patch set my point was that the intermediate version didn't bring any
> additional value and made the code more complex to review.

Ok, I think I understand better now.

I'm not sure, but you may find it odd that I broke out that particular
devm patch. But I've done so for other drivers earlier without any
review problems. Also, please note that I kept the devm stuff separate
because I was earlier recommended to do so to minimize back porting
dependencies.

Good thing was that you did clarify that such separation wasn't needed
anymore, so in the end it turned out that folding it in didn't hurt.

>> Thanks for explaining how to move forward.
>
> You're welcome.

Thanks for your help!

/ magnus