Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Support qcom pinctrl protected pins

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/25/2018 07:13 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
>>
>> This patchset proposes a solution to describing the valid
>> pins for a pin controller in a semi-generic way so that qcom
>> platforms can expose the pins that are really available.
>>
>> Typically, this has been done by having drivers and firmware
>> descriptions only use pins they know they have access to, and that
>> still works now because we no longer read the pin direction at
>> boot. But there are still some userspace drivers and debugfs facilities
>> that don't know what pins are available and attempt to read everything
>> they can. On qcom platforms, this may lead to a system hang, which isn't
>> very nice behavior, even if root is the only user that can trigger it.
>
> Any progress on this patch set?  Stephen no longer works for Qualcomm, so I
> don't know what the next step is, and I really want this feature in 4.17
> (we've missed so many merge windows already).

I depend on Bjorn as maintainer of the pin control driver to ACK
the solution he likes.

Yours,
Linus Walleij