Re: pinctrl-amd: What hardware does it apply to?

[Andrew Cooks]

Hi Linus

On 21/12/17 20:11, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi Andrew!
> 
> Thank you for your mail!
> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Andrew Cooks
> <andrew.cooks@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Another driver (gpio-sb8xx) was submitted for upstream inclusion, but was
>> knocked back with the suggestion that pinctrl is the way forward[3].
> 
> Hm I cannot follow link [3] right now. And I don't remember the submission :(
> It doesn't seem to be in my mail archives either.

Here's the same thread in a different list archive: https://marc.info/?t=143483759600001&r=1&w=2

> 
> Timur Tabi from CodeAurora is currently
> floating a patch set that makes it possible to remove entire sets of
> lines as "controlled by someone else" (read: ACPI BIOS).
> This will apply to the whole GPIO chip.
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=151379704013464&w=2
> 
> This is however under heavy discussion.

Thanks, I'm following that discussion.


Andrew