Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: meson-gxl: add tsin_a pins

From: Jerome Brunet
Date: Thu Jun 08 2017 - 10:05:34 EST


On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 15:58 +0200, Andreas FÃrber wrote:
> Am 08.06.2017 um 15:53 schrieb Jerome Brunet:
> > On Thu, 2017-06-08 at 15:49 +0200, Andreas FÃrber wrote:
> > > Am 08.06.2017 um 15:09 schrieb Jerome Brunet:
> > > > Add Tsin A pins to bank DV and X.
> > > > We don't have a driver for the tsin yet but since the tsin A pinmux is
> > > > enabled by default at boot time, declaring this pinmux is required to
> > > > properly operate on GPIOX.
> > > >
> > > > Without this change, GPIOX 8, 9, 10 and 11 can't be driven as GPIO
> > > > output
> > > > as the tsin A seems to have priority.
> > >
> > > Should this get a Fixes header then for stable backports?
> >
> > Nothing is wrong with what is already in. This is merely an addition.
>
> Your above description of not being able to use GPIOs on e.g. the GXL
> based Khadas Vim devboard sounded like a bug to me.

As far as I know, the affected pins (GPIOX 8 to 11) are used for BTPCM, not
GPIOs, on all supported designs, including the Vim.

>
> > If we go that way, all commit to this file should have a Fixes to the
> > initial commit. This seems a bit extreme to me ...
>
> Thought it might have been just an oversight.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>