Re: ååï[PATCH 2/4] pinctrl: sunxi: add support for the Allwinner A100 pin controller

[Linus Walleij]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 11:27 AM Frank Lee <tiny.windzz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> HI Chen-Yu,  Linus,
> On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 11:13 PM Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Considering that the same pin has multiple same functions,
> > > so add a suffix, like i2s3_dout3 and i2s3_din3?
> > >
> > > Or specify muxsel in the device tree may be another solution.
> >
> > Having muxsel is not really an option. We have two sets of bindings to
> > maintain already, adding a third one would make it fairly hard to
> > maintain. And the second binding we support is the generic pinctrl
> > binding, so I'm not really sure why we would want to move away from
> > that.
> >
> > And I'm not really fond of having a suffix either. It kind of breaks the
> > consistency we had so far, and ideally I'd like to keep that.
> >
> > Chen-Yu, Linus? Any input on that one?

This is entirely up to the driver maintainer. They need to keep the
code together and the naming consistent with how they perceive the
hardware works and/or is intended to work.

Yours,
Linus Walleij