Re: [PATCH v2] extcon: otg_gpio: add driver for USB OTG port controlled by GPIO(s)

Linus Walleij
2015-03-07T20:06:24Z

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 8:17 PM, David Cohen
<david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 10:53:44AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> I would put this adjacent to the phy driver somewhere in drivers/usb/*
>> and make the actual USB-driver thing handle its GPIOs directly.
>> But I guess David and Felipe have already discussed that as we're
>> seeing this patch?
>
> - The mux functions would be controlled by a possible new pinctrl-gpio
> driver (Linus, your input here would be nice :)

I don't understand what this means, does it mean a pin control function
somewhere else controlled by a GPIO pin?

Or do you mean a new combined pin control and GPIO driver (we have
plenty of these).

If you elaborate on what you need to do in that driver I might
understand it better.

Yours,
Linus Walleij