From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755075Ab3ADUED (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:04:03 -0500 Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:58909 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754612Ab3ADUEB (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jan 2013 15:04:01 -0500 Message-ID: <50E735AD.4060008@wwwdotorg.org> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 13:03:57 -0700 From: Stephen Warren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Walleij CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Stephen Warren , Anmar Oueja , Linus Walleij , Patrice Chotard Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: add pinconf-generic defines for output References: <1357318849-12616-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com> In-Reply-To: <1357318849-12616-1-git-send-email-linus.walleij@stericsson.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/04/2013 10:00 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > From: Linus Walleij > > This adds a definition of a generic output configuration > for a certain pin when using the generic pin configuration > library. Whereas driving pins low/high is usually a GPIO > business, you may want to set up pins into a default state > using hogs, and never touch them again. This helps out > with that scenario. Seems plausible:-) Although I wonder if this is moving towards DT content setting up HW rather than writing drivers for things. Probably not an issue so far though. Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren