Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] mmc: sdhci-imx-esdhc: convert to use pinctrlsubsystem

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Tue May 01 2012 - 23:28:17 EST


On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:27:08AM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:51:26AM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 01:12:58AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > If I cannot apply it there are two ways to proceed:
> > > 1. Wait for next merge window
> > > 2. Pull pinctrl into i.MX tree
> > >
> > Yes, if we would not wait for next merge window, I prefer to ask Arnd,
> > Olof to pull pinctrl into arm-soc as a dependency and we convert imx
> > drivers to the subsystem in there.
> >
> > BTW, this patch should be split into two. Adding dummy pinctrl for
> > imx should be one patch, and sdhci-imx-esdhc should be separate one.
> > And we may want to come up a series to convert all outstanding imx
> > driver to use pinctrl API, one patch for one driver with subsystem
> > maintainer Cc on the corresponding driver patch.
> >
> I can split it.
> One question is that will driver convert patch go via subsystem tree
> or soc tree?
> If adding dummy pinctrl for imx goes via soc tree but sdhci-imx-esdhc
> goes via mmc driver, the next one may break.
>
I meant we have the whole series go through arm-soc tree with ack from
subsystem maintainers collected.

--
Regards,
Shawn
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