Re: [PATCH] fix pinctrl setup for i.IMX6

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Wed Mar 15 2017 - 12:28:39 EST


* Gary Bisson <gary.bisson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [170314 07:57]:
> Hi Linus,
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 03:47:58PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 7:00 AM, Mika PenttilÃ
> > <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Recent pulls for mainline pre 4.11 introduced pinctrl setup changes and moved pinctrl-imx to
> > > use generic helpers.
> > >
> > > Net effect was that hog group could not be resolved. I made it work for myself
> > > with a two stage setup with create and start separated, and dt probe in between them.
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Mika Penttilà <mika.penttila@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Sorry for including the whole mail body, some people may have missed the
> > mail. Notably the i.MX maintainers.
> >
> > Your patch reminds me of the pinctrl_register() vs pinctrl_register_and_init()
> > introduced by Tony Lindgren, can you look into this in commit
> > 950b0d91dc108f54bccca5a2f75bb46f2df63d29
> > "pinctrl: core: Fix regression caused by delayed work for hogs"?
> >
> > Does switching pinctrl_register_and_init() back to pinctrl_register()
> > solve your problem?
> >
> > Gary: have you seen any problem like this?
>
> Yes, Mika brought it up as soon as the first 4.11-rc appeared and indeed
> this issue can be reproduced on any i.MX6 platform.
>
> Then Tony offered a patch but you haven't replied to him yet:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/2/28/140

I think as a regression fix for the -rc series, we should use Mika's
patch with the following tweaks:

1. Instead of adding yet another devm_pinctrl_register_and_init(),
let's just make devm_pinctrl_register_and_init() not call start
automatically. If people prefer to use Mika's naming for it
with nostart, I have no problem with that. But let's then rename
the current devm_pinctrl_register_and_init() so we are not stuck
with another interface with issues.

2. Update the four drivers using devm_pinctrl_register_and_init()
to also call start separately.

Mika, care to update your patch for that?

Regards,

Tony