Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] DT: pinctrl: Add binding documentation for Spreadtrum pin controller

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 26 June 2017 at 06:19, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> I meant, as part of setting the "default" state or even the "init"
>> state, we would inspect the "sleep" state, use those settings, and
>> program them into the registers at this early point.
>
> I understood your points. But we can not program all into the
> registers at one early point, sometimes these sleep-related configs
> need depend on some conditions in users' drivers, like on condition 1:
> driver need to set one pin as input-enable when specified system goes
> into deep sleep, on condition 2: driver need set this pin as
> output-enable when specified system goes into deep sleep. So I still
> think it is better if we introduce some standard sleep related
> configs.

So you mean you need special runtime states to set up sleep states?

Do you have an example of how this would look in the device tree?

I am sorry but I have a hard time following the use case :(

Yours,
Linus Walleij