linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH] pinctrl: delete raw device pointers in pinmux maps

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Message-ID: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF178E12470D@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com>
Date:	Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:37:36 -0800
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
CC:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Barry Song <21cnbao@...il.com>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>,
	Thomas Abraham <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>,
	Dong Aisheng <dong.aisheng@...aro.org>,
	Rajendra Nayak <rajendra.nayak@...aro.org>,
	Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...vell.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] pinctrl: delete raw device pointers in pinmux maps

Linus Walleij wrote at Wednesday, February 01, 2012 10:24 AM:
> After discussion with Mark Brown in an unrelated thread about
> ADC lookups, it came to my knowledge that the ability to pass
> a struct device * in the regulator consumers is just a
> historical artifact, and not really recommended. Since there
> are no in-kernel users of these pointers, we just kill them
> right now, before someone starts to use them.
> 
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

I didn't review the code, but just wanted to note that
Documentation/pinctrl.txt needs some updates too, e.g. "Pinmux
board/machine configuration" says:

> As you can see we may have several pin controllers on the system and thus
> we need to specify which one of them that contain the functions we wish
> to map. The map can also use struct device * directly, so there is no
> inherent need to use strings to specify .dev_name or .ctrl_dev_name, these
> are for the situation where you do not have a handle to the struct device *,
> for example if they are not yet instantiated or cumbersome to obtain.

I'm fine with that being a separate patch if you want, or squashing
together two separate patches.

-- 
nvpublic

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