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

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Date:	Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:35:50 -0800
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
To:	"Grant Likely (grant.likely@...retlab.ca)" 
	<grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	"rob.herring@...xeda.com" <rob.herring@...xeda.com>
CC:	Dong Aisheng <dongas86@...il.com>,
	Dong Aisheng-B29396 <B29396@...escale.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linus.walleij@...ricsson.com" <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	"s.hauer@...gutronix.de" <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"kernel@...gutronix.de" <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	"cjb@...top.org" <cjb@...top.org>,
	"devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org" 
	<devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
	"Simon Glass (sjg@...omium.org)" <sjg@...omium.org>,
	"Shawn Guo (shawn.guo@...aro.org)" <shawn.guo@...aro.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH v3 2/5] pinctrl: add dt binding support for pinmux
 mappings

Shawn Guo wrote at Friday, January 13, 2012 6:11 PM:
> 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?

I'm explicitly putting Grant and Rob on the To line here to make this
question stand out to them.

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