RE: [PATCH v5 01/10] pinctrl: generic: Add bi-directional and output-enable

[Chris Brandt]

On Friday, May 12, 2017, linux-renesas-soc-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> As you say this is actually fixing hardware bugs, we can expect these
> quirky tables to be gone in the next hardware generation, right?

I see this particular pin controller as a one shot deal. For the next
part in this series we are moving to a completely different controller
which you could probably get away with simply using pinctrl-single.


> Then the right place for it is in the quirky driver for the quirky
> first-generation
> hardware.

Maybe to be more clear, I would say the design is not a 'bug', but
rather an under sight of the original designers where are they stared
to need pins that would be both in and out, they started tacking on
more hardware.


Chris