[RFC PATCH v3 2/5] pinctrl: add dt binding support for pinmux mappings

[Shawn Guo]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:33:21AM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> So of_device_alloc(), which is called by of_platform_populate() for each
> device, already parses basic DT content such as reg and interrupts, and
> converts them to Linux resources. I'd consider parsing any pinmux properties
> and registering them with the pinctrl subsystem to be of a similar nature,
> so adding some code to of_device_alloc() that calls a core pinmux function
> to parse the DT node seems reasonable to me.
> 
I hardly believe that device tree maintainers would agree here.
Grant, Rob?

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Regards,
Shawn