[RFC PATCH v3 3/5] pinctrl: imx: add pinctrl imx driver

[Shawn Guo]

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:43:28AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Richard Zhao
> <richard.zhao at freescale.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 02:32:12PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> >> As I was educated by Linus.W, we can not drink ocean and we need to
> >> split big chunk of work into pieces and achieve it step by step.
> > Sure, we can not drink out the ocean :). But if people can not use it
> > in real case, how do we verify the driver? How do we know the driver
> > goes in the right way?
> 
> If you prefer to do a big upfront design of the entire driver then please
> by all means do that.
> 
> What we need to know right now is what you need from the pin
> controller core to do that. We have a (custom) pinconf API now,
> does it fit the bill?
> 
Hmm, I do not think it fits right away, as I do not think it's sensible
to have pinctrl client drivers call pin_config_set() directly.

> I have spent some time on generic pin config, it was not much
> commented so if it helps you please ACK the patches.
> 
Since the ARM community is the one who is most interested in pinctrl
subsystem so far, I guess copying LAKML will help collect more comments
and various tags.  (For example, I'm interested in pinctrl, but I do
not track LKML as close as I do for LAKML).

> Next from discussions with Stpehen I've sort of figured out that
> we need a config mapping table of sorts and then a means to activate
> entries of that table at runtime. I'm trying to come up with something
> for this.
> 
That's something we are waiting for pinconf being usable for imx.

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Regards,
Shawn