Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] soc: starfive: Add JHB100 UART Routing driver

From: Linus Walleij

Date: Wed Sep 16 2026 - 09:18:53 EST


On Thu, Sep 3, 2026 at 11:32 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Anyway, as you pointed out there is already one code like this - Aspeed
> - thus this is a second one and that makes it reasonable to make a
> proper common user-space API.

Brrr my stance as pin control mainainer is that this was merged
behind my back and shouldn't have been done like that, and two
wrongs does not XOR and make one right.

I think what we want here is a way to flag some specific pinctrl
states as userspace accessible and develop an ABI for that.

Yours,
Linus Walleij