Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: generic: Avoid several implicit enum conversions

From: Nathan Chancellor
Date: Fri Nov 09 2018 - 10:22:05 EST


On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 10:29:02AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 1:03 AM Nathan Chancellor
> <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [Me]
> > > A slightly lesser evil variant is to add a few PIN_CONFIG_CUSTOM_1
> > > PIN_CONFIG_CUSTOM_2 etc at the end of the enum and just
> > > #define MY_CONFIG PIN_CONFIG_CUSTOM_1
> > > in all drivers that use these.
> > >
> >
> > Some drivers actually just define their pin config params like:
> >
> > #define VAR (PIN_CONFIG_END + 1)
> >
> > In fact, more drivers do that than not. I will go ahead and draft some
> > patches tonight and send them out tonight to see what driver authors
> > think.
>
> This seems to work. Is your kernel compile working without
> warnings after this round of patches?
>

Yes, there are no more enum-conversion warnings and the tree shows there
are no more enums that use PIN_CONFIG_END.

> Thanks for driving this BTW.
>

Thank you for being patient and forcing me to come up with a solution
that works for you!

Nathan

> Yours,
> Linus Walleij