Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: imx6q: switch to use pinctrl driver

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Dong Aisheng
<aisheng.dong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:37:54PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:03:16PM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
>> ...
>> > For MX3 and MX5, before their pinctrl driver are available, user may
>> > need to define a dummy in dt to avoid such an error.
>> >
>> That is insane, and will not work.
>>
>> 1) We do not have device tree support for MX3 yet.
>> 2) It's not practical to add dummy entries in dt to avoid the error.
>> 3) There are still so many non-dt board files support in the tree.
>> How will they work with that?
>>
>> My suggestion is to not make it an error but a dev_dbg, assuming that
>> the pins are already set up by platform code if we do not find the
>> entry from pinctrl system.  We can take it as a transition solution,
>> and turn the dev_dbg back to error when all the users of the device
>> driver are converted to device tree.
>>
> My thinking is let pinctrl core handle dummy state as regulator subsystem
> and does not depend on dt.
> Linus, Stephen, any comment?

I think this was discussed in another thread and Sascha agreed that
wee need dummy pinctrl to copy with a smooth transition in i.MX.

So I'm happy with that, we just need to finalize a patch, poke
me if I missed some patch...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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