Re: [PATCH v4] ARM:dts:omap4-panda: Update the LED support for thepanda DTS

[Nishanth Menon]

On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Dan Murphy <dmurphy@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/16/2013 01:18 PM, Nishanth Menon wrote:
>> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Dan Murphy <dmurphy@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>> I am not sure you really want to do this.
>>> If I make the pinctrl part of the led structure then the only way the gpio_wk7 on a1-a3 to be configured is when
>>> the CONFIG_LEDS_GPIO flag is set.
>>>
>>> Do you really want that dependency?  You did say it was a key fix
>>> At least this way the pins are configured regardless of that flag.
>> That is better as the system will be left in the pinmux configuration
>> handed over from bootloader.
> So you want to depend on a boot loader to configure pins correctly for the kernel?
> Hmmm seems risky to me.

Not really! if it is a critical pinmux, pinmux defaults are great,
else belongs definitely to device->pinctrl :) depending on bootloader
pinmux implies NOT having pinmux even for device - NO. that is
definitely not what I stated.
Regards,
NM
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