Re: [PATCH 1/3] pinctrl: Widen the generic pinconf argument from 16 to 24 bits

[Linus Walleij]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:48 AM, Mika Westerberg
<mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The current pinconf packed format allows only 16-bit argument limiting
> the maximum value 65535. For most types this is enough. However,
> debounce time can be in range of hundreths of milliseconds in case of
> mechanical switches so we cannot represent the worst case using the
> current format.
>
> In order to support larger values change the packed format so that the
> lower 8 bits are used as type which leaves 24 bits for the argument.
> This allows representing values up to 16777215 and debounce times up to
> 16 seconds.
>
> We also convert the existing users to use 32-bit integer when extracting
> argument from the packed configuration value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I like the looks of this :)

Look into Andy's comment and whatever else appears, then let's
apply the v2 of this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij