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From: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@freescale.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>,
	<B29396@freescale.com>, <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
	<dongas86@gmail.com>, <shawn.guo@linaro.org>,
	<thomas.abraham@linaro.org>, <tony@atomide.com>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/20] pinctrl: Downgrade pinctrl_get warning when no maps are found
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:56:48 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120222065647.GE11087@shlinux2.ap.freescale.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACRpkdbpBZqUUwxwF8o8P1P9yknY7SRSzGmYsa3kQ1JH=QNJ7A@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 02:51:55PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> wrote:
> 
> > This may be perfectly legitimate. An IP block may get re-used
> > across SoCs. Not all of those SoCs may need pinmux settings for the
> > IP block, e.g. if one SoC dedicates pins to that function but
> > another doesn't. The driver won't know this, and will always
> > attempt to set up the pinmux. The mapping table defines whether any
> > HW programming is actually needed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> 
> This is equivalent to providing dummy pincontrollers as was on my
> TODO for a while admittedly.
> 
> For consistency with regulators it would maybe be better to have
> optional dummy pin controllers but after thinking a bit about it
> I think this is more helpful, so I applied it anyway.
> 
> However I would invite more opinions...
> 
I'm afraid this is a little error-prone, that means even we specifed
the wrong map name or state name, the pinctrl_get still does not get
failed and it is a little different as what we want in this patch.

Regards
Dong Aisheng


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-22  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-20  6:45 [PATCH 00/20] pinctrl: API change, config in mapping table Stephen Warren
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 01/20] pinctrl: pinctrl_register_mappings() shouldn't be __init Stephen Warren
2012-02-20 21:01   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 02/20] pinctrl: use list_add_tail instead of list_add Stephen Warren
2012-02-20 21:03   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 03/20] pinctrl: Store mapping table as a list of chunks Stephen Warren
2012-02-20 21:08   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 04/20] pinctrl: Record a pin owner, not mux function, when requesting pins Stephen Warren
2012-02-20 21:15   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-21 17:23     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-22  6:17       ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 05/20] pinctrl: Re-order pinmux.[ch] to match each-other Stephen Warren
2012-02-20 21:17   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 06/20] pinctrl: Re-order pinconf.[ch] " Stephen Warren
2012-02-20 21:18   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 07/20] pinctrl: core.c/h cleanups Stephen Warren
2012-02-20 21:20   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 08/20] pinctrl: Assume map table entries can't have a NULL name field Stephen Warren
2012-02-20 21:42   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-21 13:09     ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-21 13:12       ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-21 17:46     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-22  6:13       ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-22  6:34       ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-22 18:05         ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-23  3:35           ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-23  3:39             ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-23  3:56               ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-23  3:53                 ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-23  4:48                   ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-23 16:39                     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-24  8:40                       ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-21 13:08   ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-21 17:38     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-22  6:21       ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 09/20] pinctrl: Disallow map table entries with NULL dev_name field Stephen Warren
2012-02-20 21:49   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-22  6:46   ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 10/20] pinctrl: Assume map table entries can't have a NULL ctrl_dev_name field Stephen Warren
2012-02-21 13:36   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-22  6:49   ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 11/20] pinctrl: Downgrade pinctrl_get warning when no maps are found Stephen Warren
2012-02-21 13:51   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-22  5:54     ` Shawn Guo
2012-02-22  6:56     ` Dong Aisheng [this message]
2012-02-22 17:21       ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-23  3:48         ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 12/20] pinctrl: Use dev_*() instead of pr_*(), add some msgs, minor cleanups Stephen Warren
2012-02-22  6:23   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-22  7:01   ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 13/20] pinctrl: Error if mapping table's control dev can't be found Stephen Warren
2012-02-21 13:58   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-21 17:50     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 14/20] pinctrl: Allocate sizeof(*p) instead of sizeof(struct foo) Stephen Warren
2012-02-22  6:25   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-22  7:04   ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 15/20] pinctrl: Fix and simplify locking Stephen Warren
2012-02-22 17:38   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-22 18:26     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-23  0:18       ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 16/20] pinctrl: Refactor struct pinctrl handling in core.c vs pinmux.c Stephen Warren
2012-02-22 17:18   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-24 16:55   ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 17/20] pinctrl: Add usecount to pins for muxing Stephen Warren
2012-02-22 17:21   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-27  7:11   ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-27 18:21     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 18/20] pinctrl: Fix pinconf_groups_show() to emit newline Stephen Warren
2012-02-22 17:43   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-20  6:45 ` [PATCH 19/20] pinctrl: API changes to support multiple states per device Stephen Warren
2012-02-23  5:54   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-23 16:46     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-27  9:07   ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-27 18:37     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-28  3:18       ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-28 17:04         ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-29  2:26           ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-20  6:46 ` [PATCH 20/20] pinctrl: Enhance mapping table to support pin config operations Stephen Warren
2012-02-23  6:08   ` Linus Walleij
2012-02-23 16:48     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-23 21:13     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-27 12:21   ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-27 19:02     ` Stephen Warren
2012-02-28  3:41       ` Dong Aisheng
2012-02-20 21:51 ` [PATCH 00/20] pinctrl: API change, config in mapping table Linus Walleij

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