Re: [PATCH 04/20] pinctrl: Record a pin owner, not mux function, whenrequesting pins

[Linus Walleij]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> When pins are requested/acquired/got, some device becomes the owner of
> their mux setting. At this point, it isn't certain which mux function
> will be selected for the pin, since this may vary between each of the
> device's states in the pinctrl mapping table. As such, we should record
> the owning device, not what we think the initial mux setting will be,
> when requesting pins.
>
> This doesn't make a lot of difference right now since pinctrl_get gets
> only one single device/state combination, but this will make a difference
> when pinctrl_get gets all states, and pinctrl_select_state can switch
> between states.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx>

Mostly a rename then, OK...

> @@ -66,19 +65,14 @@ static int pin_request(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
>                goto out;
>        }
>
> -       if (!function) {
> -               dev_err(pctldev->dev, "no function name given\n");
> -               return -EINVAL;
> -       }
> -

Why should it be allowed to have a NULL owner? There is a
debug print involving it above but ... maybe this is over-cautious?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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