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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: add a generic pin config interface
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:18:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111124151812.GN8470@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdb78AAM-9JasxQ2pRLwVGj0n64bqo82oVbpaFKsMNqnaA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 03:19:39PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mark Brown

> > I'd second this - in my experience detailed setup for these settings
> > usually comes from hardware engineers in the form of "set register X to
> > value Y".  Having to decode the sematics does make things that little
> > bit harder.

> I'm a bit reluctant, since the above is sometimes referred to as
> "throw over the wall engineering" and is generally considered a bad
> way of doing things.

Well, another way of describing the above situation would be the
software engineers going to the hardware engineer and saying that
they've got ringing on a signal (or something) and the hardware
engineer coming back with a suggested fix.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-24 15:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-11  8:31 [PATCH v2] pinctrl: add a generic pin config interface Linus Walleij
2011-11-11 11:26 ` Thomas Abraham
2011-11-14  9:36   ` Linus Walleij
2011-11-14 14:24     ` Thomas Abraham
2011-11-14 19:44 ` Stephen Warren
2011-11-17 13:26   ` Linus Walleij
2011-11-18 22:32     ` Stephen Warren
2011-11-21 19:29       ` Linus Walleij
2011-11-21 23:22         ` Stephen Warren
2011-11-22 13:59           ` Mark Brown
2011-11-24 14:19             ` Linus Walleij
2011-11-24 15:18               ` Mark Brown [this message]

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