Re: [PATCH 4/4] pinctrl: iproc: Allow PINCONF to be disabled completely

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Ray Jui <ray.jui@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In some of the future iProc based SoCs, pinconf is handled by another
> block and the iProc GPIO controller is solely used as a GPIO controller.
> This patch adds support of a new compatible string "brcm,iproc-gpio-only",
> that is introduced to handle this case, where pinconf functions in this
> driver are completely disabled
>
> Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <ray.jui@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Yendapally Reddy Dhananjaya Reddy <yendapally.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

If this was entirely true, then the driver should end up only executing
[devm_]gpiochip_add_data() but that does not seem to be the case.

You are still registering a pin controller, right? Just disabling some of
the pin config options. The pin multiplexing is still there, right?
Then it is not "solely a GPIO controller". Not at all.

This patch set needs some elaboration I think.

Yours,
Linus Walleij