Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] of: property: Add device link support for pinctrl-0 through pinctrl-8

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2020 at 2:13 PM Saravana Kannan <saravanak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add support for pinctrl-0 through pinctrl-8 explicitly instead of trying
> to add support for pinctrl-%d properties.
>
> Of all the pinctrl-* properties in dts files (20322), only 47% (9531)
> are pinctrl-%d properties. Of all the pinctrl-%d properties, 99.5%
> (9486) are made up of pinctrl-[0-2].
>
> Trying to parse all pinctrl-* properties and checking for pinctrl-%d is
> unnecessarily complicated. So, just add support for pinctrl-[0-8] for
> now. In the unlikely event we ever exceed pinctrl-8, we can come back
> and improve this.

It wasn't immediately clear from this that pinctrl-8 is the current
max you found vs. a should be enough for a while.

Pinctrl is also a bit special in that we have 100s of child nodes and
only 1 to a few actual dependencies (the pinctrl node). I assume in
the end here, it's just the pin controller node that's the dependency
rather than creating lot's of dependencies?

Rob