Re: [PATCH v2] drivers/pinctrl: grab default handles from device core

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 09:25:07PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> 
> This makes the device core auto-grab the pinctrl handle and set
> the "default" (PINCTRL_STATE_DEFAULT) state for every device
> that is present in the device model right before probe. This will
> account for the lion's share of embedded silicon devcies.
> 
> A modification of the semantics for pinctrl_get() is also done:
> previously if the pinctrl handle for a certain device was already
> taken, the pinctrl core would return an error. Now, since the
> core may have already default-grabbed the handle and set its
> state to "default", if the handle was already taken, this will
> be disregarded and the located, previously instanitated handle
> will be returned to the caller.
> 
> This way all code in drivers explicitly requesting their pinctrl
> handlers will still be functional, and drivers that want to
> explicitly retrieve and switch their handles can still do that.
> But if the desired functionality is just boilerplate of this
> type in the probe() function:
> 
> struct pinctrl  *p;
> 
> p = devm_pinctrl_get_select_default(&dev);
> if (IS_ERR(p)) {
>    if (PTR_ERR(p) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
>         return -EPROBE_DEFER;
>         dev_warn(&dev, "no pinctrl handle\n");
> }
> 
> The discussion began with the addition of such boilerplate
> to the omap4 keypad driver:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-input&m=135091157719300&w=2
> 
> A previous approach using notifiers was discussed:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135263661110528&w=2
> This failed because it could not handle deferred probes.
> 
> This patch alone does not solve the entire dilemma faced:
> whether code should be distributed into the drivers or
> if it should be centralized to e.g. a PM domain. But it
> solves the immediate issue of the addition of boilerplate
> to a lot of drivers that just want to grab the default
> state. As mentioned, they can later explicitly retrieve
> the handle and set different states, and this could as
> well be done by e.g. PM domains as it is only related
> to a certain struct device * pointer.
> 
> Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
> Cc: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
> Cc: Mitch Bradley <wmb@firmworks.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> Cc: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
> Cc: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
> Cc: Rickard Andersson <rickard.andersson@stericsson.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> ---
> ChangeLog v1->v2:
> - Only store a pointer in the device struct, and only allocate
>   this if it's really used by the device.
> - Seeking ACK on this from Greg (and others who like it) so I
>   can merge it through the pinctrl subsystem.

It looks ok, but this can't go in for 3.8, sorry, please wait for 3.9.

greg k-h