[PATCH v4 2/3] dt-bindings: pps: pps-gpio: document optional pinctrl states

From: Eliav Farber

Date: Sat Sep 19 2026 - 13:12:20 EST


When the PPS input GPIO is routed through a pin controller, a board may
need to mux those pins to a different function while pps-gpio is not
driving PPS (for example after the driver is unbound or across a kexec).

Document the optional "default" and "inactive" pinctrl-names and show
both in the example. The "default" state selects the PPS/GPIO function
and is applied by the driver core before probe; the optional "inactive"
state, when present, describes the mux to restore when the driver is
unbound or the system is shut down. "default" is pinctrl-0, matching the
implicit ordering the pinctrl core already assigns it, and "inactive" is
pinctrl-1; the driver looks each state up by name.

Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v4:
- Rework per Rob Herring: do not express the ordering in prose; use an
ordered "items" list ("default" then "inactive") with minItems: 1,
since pinctrl-0 is already implicitly "default" and its position is
fixed. This also fixes the "['default', 'inactive'] is too long"
dt_binding_check error seen on v3. Reword the commit message accordingly

Changes in v3:
- Do not constrain pinctrl-names to a fixed ["default", "inactive"]
tuple. The driver looks the states up by name, so "inactive" may
appear in any position and other states may coexist; only require
(via "contains") that a "default" state exists, and reword the
description accordingly

Changes in v2:
- Rename the released state from "idle" to "inactive"

.../devicetree/bindings/pps/pps-gpio.yaml | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pps/pps-gpio.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pps/pps-gpio.yaml
index 383a838744eb..61b5de6724ea 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pps/pps-gpio.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pps/pps-gpio.yaml
@@ -28,6 +28,17 @@ properties:
description: Indicates a falling edge assert, when present. Rising edge if absent.
type: boolean

+ pinctrl-names:
+ description:
+ The "default" state selects the PPS/GPIO function and is applied by the
+ driver core before probe. The optional "inactive" state, when present,
+ is selected when the driver is unbound or the system is shut down,
+ handing the pins back to their alternate function.
+ minItems: 1
+ items:
+ - const: default
+ - const: inactive
+
required:
- compatible
- gpios
@@ -40,8 +51,9 @@ examples:

pps {
compatible = "pps-gpio";
- pinctrl-names = "default";
+ pinctrl-names = "default", "inactive";
pinctrl-0 = <&pinctrl_pps>;
+ pinctrl-1 = <&pinctrl_pps_inactive>;
gpios = <&gpio1 26 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
assert-falling-edge;
echo-gpios = <&gpio1 27 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
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