[PATCH 2/2] Make non-linear GPIO ranges accesible from gpiolib

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On 06/20/2013 05:57 AM, Christian Ruppert wrote:

> The Linux pinctrl subsystem specifically doesn't provide mutual
> exclusion between "mux function" and GPIO usage within a pin group,
> although perhaps a driver could internally.

It used to block this at one point. But it doesn't make sense
when the hardware looks like so:

>>                                                      +- SPI
>>                  Physical pins --- GPIO --- pinctrl -+- I2C
>>                                                      +- mmc

As in this case it is perfectly legal to enable the GPIO as
input while the I2C bus is running and "spy" on the signals.

The driver should probably not allow the GPIO output to be
driven while some peripheral is muxed in though, that could be
disastrous...

Yours,
Linus Walleij