From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757623Ab3G2Qip (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:38:45 -0400 Received: from avon.wwwdotorg.org ([70.85.31.133]:37210 "EHLO avon.wwwdotorg.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756133Ab3G2Qio (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:38:44 -0400 Message-ID: <51F69A8F.2000802@wwwdotorg.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 10:38:39 -0600 From: Stephen Warren User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130510 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Laxman Dewangan CC: "grant.likely@linaro.org" , "linus.walleij@linaro.org" , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , "rob@landley.net" , "sameo@linux.intel.com" , "lee.jones@linaro.org" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "gg@slimlogic.co.uk" , "kishon@ti.com" , Stephen Warren , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pinctrl: pinconf_generic: add utility functions for add map/configs References: <1374833754-19659-1-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <1374833754-19659-2-git-send-email-ldewangan@nvidia.com> <51F2B384.9050706@wwwdotorg.org> <51F39D98.1090008@nvidia.com> In-Reply-To: <51F39D98.1090008@nvidia.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 07/27/2013 04:14 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote: > On Friday 26 July 2013 11:06 PM, Stephen Warren wrote: >> On 07/26/2013 04:15 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote: >>> Some of pincontrol driver needs the utility function to create map >>> list. The utility function needed for adding mux, configs etc. >> Which other drivers already contain this code? Are you planning on >> converting them over to use these new functions? The code looks >> familiar, so I assume it's just cut/paste from Tegra with some renames, >> so I didn't read it through in detail. > > Yes, these functions are taken from the pinctrl-tegra driver. Other > drivers which have similar implementation are nomadik, tegra, abx500, > tz1090, tz1090-pdc. > So All can use these utility function to avoid duplication and reduce > code size. > Yes, I have plan to use this in Tegra atleast but once this patch get > accepted. > > >> >>> drivers/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.c | 105 >>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> include/linux/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.h | 52 +++++++++++++++ >> I don't think those are the correct files for this code. Presumably >> there's no reason at all why a pinctrl driver that doesn't require >> CONFIG_GENERIC_PINCONF can't use these basic utility functions. Perhaps >> add a new pinctrl-utils file? > > I thought generic implementation of parsing of dt is pinctrl-generic > file and as these newly added APIs are require for the parsing the DT > node, I added here. > I can move this to pinctrl-util.c/h also. pinctrl-generic isn't about DT, it's about defining generic options for pin configuration rather than SoC-/driver-specific options for pin configuration. (pin configuration being e.g. pull-up/down, bias direction/strength, slew rate, etc.)