Re: [PATCH 0/2] pinctrl: meson: use one uniform 'function' name

[Jerome Brunet]

On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 15:33 +0800, Yixun Lan wrote:
> These two patches are general improvement for meson pinctrl driver.
> It make the two pinctrl trees (ee/ao) to share one uniform 'function' name for
> one hardware block even its pin groups live inside two differet hardware domains,
> which for example EE vs AO domain here.
> 
> This idea is motivated by Martin's question at [1]
> 
> [1]
>  http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAFBinCCuQ-NK747+GHDkhZty_UMMgzCYOYFcNTrRDJgU8OM=Gw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> Yixun Lan (2):
>   pinctrl: meson: introduce a macro to have name/groups seperated
>   pinctrl: meson-axg: correct the pin expansion of UART_AO_B
> 
>  drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson-axg.c | 4 ++--
>  drivers/pinctrl/meson/pinctrl-meson.h     | 8 +++++---
>  2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Hi Yixun,

Honestly, I don't like the idea. I think it adds an unnecessary complexity.
I don't see the point of FUNCTION_EX(uart_ao_b, _z) when you could simply write 
FUNCTION(uart_ao_b_z) ... especially when there is just a couple of function per
SoC available on different domains.

A pinctrl driver can already be challenging to understand at first, let's keep
it simple and avoid adding more macros.

Regards
Jerome