Re: [PATCH] i2c: s3c2410: check for NULL pinctrl handle

["Heiko Stübner" <heiko@sntech.de>]

Am Sonntag, 24. Februar 2013, 23:39:44 schrieb Linus Walleij:
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Note that we are talking here about a temporary solution. The legacy
> >> > DT- based pin configuration will go away after all the DT-enabled
> >> > platforms using this driver get migrated to pin control and so will
> >> > the need to check if pin control is available.
> >> 
> >> So use AUXDATA, and you get a pdata for that driver?
> > 
> > Hmm, and then have some platform data passed statically and some parsed
> > from device tree?
> 
> This is done by several in-tree drivers today. It is even necessary for
> things like machine-specific callbacks.
> 
> > Not even saying that we are going towards getting rid of
> > auxdata, not adding further dependencies for it.
> 
> The other option is to do the non-temporary solution you are
> referring to below...
> 
> > Sorry, but this sounds more broken to me than checking the return value
> > of devm_pinctrl_get_select_default for NULL in the driver.
> 
> Both are bad solution, auxdata is less bad than trying to check
> struct pinctrl * handles for non-NULL, which has *never* been a
> good thing to do and should never have been merged in the first
> place.
> 
> (Maybe I ACKed that, then I was doing something stupid.)
> 
> > Still, all the platforms relying on the legacy DT GPIO support should
> > have been already migrated to pin control, so ideally instead of
> > "fixing" the drivers to continue supporting the deprecated method, such
> > platforms should be fixed.
> 
> I agree.

Fine by me ... I'll work on a pinctrl driver for s3c24xx then :-)


Heiko