Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] pinctrl: Add driver for Alphascale asm9260 pinctrl

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Oleksij Rempel <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Me]
>> Why is it necessary for the driver to copy one description of
>> the pin into another?
>
> If i understand it correctly, pinctrl_pin_desc is essential part of
> pinmux framework. Theoretically i should define just statical array of
> this struct, but by this number of pins and functions it hard to keep it
> readable and error free. So i decided to create asm9260_mux_table which
> contains every thing i need. The side effect is higher memory usage
> since i need to create pinctrl_pin_desc on fly.
>
> May be i miss some thing?

I don't see how having code copying data from one data container
to another makes things "more readable and error free". Go for *one*
static definition. Also the memory waste is a total no-no.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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