Re: [PATCH 1/2] RFT: pinctrl: sirf: switch to using allocated state container

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Barry Song <baohua@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2014-04-24 5:16 GMT+08:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>:

>> This rewrites the SIRF pinctrl driver to allocate a state container
>> for the GPIO chip, just as is done for the pin controller, and
>> use the gpiochip_add_pin_range() to add the range from the gpiochip
>> side rather than adding the range from the pinctrl side.
>>
>> All resulting changes are done in order to pass around a state
>> container rather than refer to a static global object.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Linus, thanks! but this breaks prima2 pinctrl subsystem, do you have an idea?
> otherwise i will do a debug to find the reason.

Unfortunately no :-(

This is the downside of dry-coding ... I rely on others to help out.

See it as a suggestion to what I think should be refactored and how,
I'll keep it on a branch as some "TODO" item for the moment.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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