Re: [PATCH 0/2] pinctrl: pinctrl-single: new type: pinctrl-single,bits

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxx> wrote:

> When configuring pinmux with pinctrl-single there could be a case when one
> register is used to configure mux for more than one pin.
> In this case the use of pinctrl-single,pins is a bit problematic since we can
> only update the whole register (restricted by the mask).
> In such a situations the pinctrl-single,bits could provide a safe way to handle
> the mux.
>
> pinctrl-single,bits takes three parameters: <reg offset, value, sub-mask>
> The sub mask is used to mask part of the register to make sure we do not change
> bits outside of the scope of this pin.
>
> The first patch in this series is to fix the previous pinctrl-since,pins
> implementation because it was not using the mask on the value which could result
> changed bits outside of the mask.

This looks sane to me, but I'd like Tony to ACK before I apply it.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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