Re: [PATCH 08/20] pinctrl: Assume map table entries can't have a NULLname field

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Wed Feb 22 2012 - 01:13:41 EST


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I guess we could just modify pinmux_get() such that if NULL is passed as
> the state name, it uses "default" instead internally. The disadvantage I
> see here is that someone reading the client driver and writing the mapping
> table then has to know that pinmux_get() does that internally, rather than
> it being obvious right in the client driver code.

I would prefer this solution, it has the upside of not needing to touch
the sirf driver.

And please #define the string somewhere instead of open-coding
"default", it's too errorprone IMO.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij
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