Re: [PATCH 2/7] pinctrl: pinconf-generic: Infer map type from DT property

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Nov 11 2014 - 07:47:16 EST


On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Soren Brinkmann
<soren.brinkmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> With the new 'groups' property, the DT parser can infer the map type
> from the fact whether 'pins' or 'groups' is used to specify the pin
> group to work on.
> To maintain backwards compatibitliy with current usage of the DT
> binding, this is only done when an invalid map type is passed to the
> parsing function.

So that is this:

> + if (type == PIN_MAP_TYPE_INVALID)
> + type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_CONFIGS_GROUP;
> + dt_pin_specifier = "groups";

This is just kludgy. There are only two kernel-internal users of this function,
refactor the function signature and change the other callers over instead,
patch the drivers.

Take this opportunity to add some kerneldoc above the
pinconf_generic_dt_subnode_to_map() and give the function a
reasonable signature.

BTW: this is just for config settings for groups right? Not for muxing
I hope?

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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