Re: [PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:34:31PM -0700, Stefan Agner wrote:
> Yeah it is a bit a wording thing: In my understanding, pinctrl is
> required on SoC's witch have a pin controller... It is just that the
> driver does not need to get the pinctrl by itself because the stack is
> taking care of it implicitly. And yes, that makes the particular example
> not a real world example.

At first I thought, too, that it's a fatal problem if getting the
pinctrl stuff fails. IMHO that shows that the comments (or the code) are
still not good enough.

Maybe we should do something like that:

/*
 * As the IP doesn't support bus recovery, we have to switch SCL and SDA
 * to their GPIO function and do some bitbanging. These alternative
 * pinmux settings can be described in the device tree by a separate
 * pinctrl state "gpio". If this is missing this is not a big problem,
 * the only implication is that we can't do bus recovery.
 */
static void i2c_imx_init_recovery_info(...)
{
	...

and then put

        i2c_imx->pinctrl = devm_pinctrl_get(&pdev->dev);
        if (IS_ERR(i2c_imx->pinctrl))
		return;

into this function (and remove it from i2c_imx_probe). This makes it
more obvious that .pinctrl is only ever used for recovery and as
i2c_imx_init_recovery_info is void there is no error to propagate.

Best regards
Uwe

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