RE: [RFC PATCH v3 2/5] pinctrl: add dt binding support for pinmuxmappings

From: Stephen Warren
Date: Tue Jan 17 2012 - 14:35:58 EST


Shawn Guo wrote at Friday, January 13, 2012 6:11 PM:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:33:21AM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > So of_device_alloc(), which is called by of_platform_populate() for each
> > device, already parses basic DT content such as reg and interrupts, and
> > converts them to Linux resources. I'd consider parsing any pinmux properties
> > and registering them with the pinctrl subsystem to be of a similar nature,
> > so adding some code to of_device_alloc() that calls a core pinmux function
> > to parse the DT node seems reasonable to me.
>
> I hardly believe that device tree maintainers would agree here.
> Grant, Rob?

I'm explicitly putting Grant and Rob on the To line here to make this
question stand out to them.

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