Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: rip out the direct pinconf API

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 06/24/2013 07:15 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> 
> From the inception ot the pin config API there has been the
> possibility to get a handle at a pin directly and configure
> its electrical characteristics. For this reason we had:
> 
> int pin_config_get(const char *dev_name, const char *name,
>                unsigned long *config);
> int pin_config_set(const char *dev_name, const char *name,
>                unsigned long config);
> int pin_config_group_get(const char *dev_name,
>                const char *pin_group,
>                unsigned long *config);
> int pin_config_group_set(const char *dev_name,
>                const char *pin_group,
>                unsigned long config);
> 
> After the intruction of the pin control states that will
> control pins associated with devices, and its subsequent
> introduction to the device core, as well as the
> introduction of pin control hogs that can set up states on
> boot and optionally also at sleep, this direct pin control
> API is a thing of the past.
> 
> As could be expected, it has zero in-kernel users.
> Let's delete this API and make our world simpler.

Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>