Re: [PATCHv2] Input: omap4-keypad: Add pinctrl support

From: Mark Brown
Date: Tue Oct 30 2012 - 14:37:01 EST


On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 07:25:13PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 03:58:21PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > But then this comes round to the mindless code that ought to be factored
> > out :) Only the more interesting cases that do something unusual really
> > register here.

> fair enough. I see your point. Not saying I agree though, just that this
> discussion has been flying for far too long, so feel free to provide
> patches implementing what you're defending here ;-)

> Guess code will speak for itself. On way or another, we need OMAP keypad
> driver working in mainline and I don't think your arguments are strong
> enough to keep $SUBJECT from being merged, unless you can provide
> something stable/tested for v3.8 merge window.

Ship me an OMAP5 system and I might see what I can do :)

More seriously the amount of time we seem to have been spending recently
on changes which end up requiring us to go through essentially every
driver and add code to them (often several times) doesn't seem like
we're doing a good job here. pinctrl is really noticable because it's
new but it's not the only thing. As a subsystem maintainer this code
just makes me want to add new subsystem features to pull the code out of
drivers but obviously that's not something that should be being done at
the subsystem level.

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