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

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Jan 11 2018 - 04:46:45 EST


On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Yixun Lan <yixun.lan@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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

There seems to be controversy here so I'd like input from Carlo
and/or Beniamino if possible.

Yours,
Linus Walleij