Re: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: Don't create a device for each pin controller
From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 07:52:44 EST
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Pin controllers should already be instantiated as a device, so there's
> no need for the pinctrl core to create a new struct device for each
> controller.
>
> This allows the controller's real name to be used in the mux mapping
> table, rather than e.g. "pinctrl.0", "pinctrl.1", etc.
Hey cool, this "just works" on U300!
And it is what we want for future device tree work I highly suspect.
I'll push the change to linux-next!
Thanks,
Linus Walleij
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