Re: [PATCH v3 12/15] pinctrl: allow to mark pin functions as requestable GPIOs

[Bartosz Golaszewski]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >  struct pinfunction {
> >         const char *name;
> >         const char * const *groups;
> >         size_t ngroups;
> > +       unsigned long flags;
>
> Not sure we need this. If the function is GPIO, pin control already
> knows about this. The pin muxing has gpio request / release callbacks
> that change the state. Why do we need an additional flag(s)?
>

I'm not following, how does the pin controller know that the function
is GPIO exactly, other than by the bit set in this field?

Bartosz