Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] pinctrl: mvebu: restructure resource allocation

Sebastian Hesselbarth
2014-02-23T22:12:40Z

On 02/23/2014 11:06 PM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 03:20:58PM +0100, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> This patch set restructures the common pinctrl driver part of mvebu
>> to allow SoC specific controls to handle their own resources. Currently,
>> the common driver maps a single resource passed by DT while the SoC
>> specific controls cannot access that resource. To achieve the removal
>> of knowledge of resources in the common driver, we first need to rework
>> how SoC specific and common get/set callbacks are handled.
>>
>> The patch set is based on three patch sets sent earlier [1][2][3] but drops
>> any Dove specific removal of hardcoded addresses. This allows to have
>> a clear view on the structural changes now and Dove specific changes
>> later on. The Dove specific patches will be re-sent on top of this one,
>> as soon as we are all happy with the resource allcation restruturing.
>>
>> Also, in the meantime, pinctrl driver stubs for new Armada 375/38x have
>> been posted [4]. Compared to v3, this patch set now also takes care of
>> the new pinctrl stubs for Armada 375/38x. Those patches have been provided
>> by Thomas Petazzoni and make this patches depend on them. We have no stable
>> branch for the Armada 375/38x pinctrl patches but I guess Jason will provide
>> one soon.
>
> Ok, I've applied this to mvebu/pinctrl with a dependency on
> mvebu/pinctrl-3xx. So this'll be in -next tonight and hopefully we'll
> have an ideal in a few days which tree we'll send it through.

Great, thanks! I'll prepare Dove cleanup on top tomorrow. Unfortunately,
Dove-to-mvebu progress will also depend on it. If you are unhappy
with the triple dependency we can postpone it for v3.16 but I think it
should be relatively easy to handle.

Sebastian