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Message-ID: <20111124151812.GN8470@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:18:13 +0000 From: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com> To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>, Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>, Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] pinctrl: add a generic pin config interface On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 03:19:39PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mark Brown > > I'd second this - in my experience detailed setup for these settings > > usually comes from hardware engineers in the form of "set register X to > > value Y". Having to decode the sematics does make things that little > > bit harder. > I'm a bit reluctant, since the above is sometimes referred to as > "throw over the wall engineering" and is generally considered a bad > way of doing things. Well, another way of describing the above situation would be the software engineers going to the hardware engineer and saying that they've got ringing on a signal (or something) and the hardware engineer coming back with a suggested fix. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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