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

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdbGwfR37HQ=QUEooyVzJ2zoD0bjaZ_-TSaFGiBZG_dTCQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 1 Feb 2012 19:41:21 +0100
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
Cc:	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>,
	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>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: delete raw device pointers in pinmux maps

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com> wrote:
> 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:

Good catch! Spinning a v2 with that removed.

Thanks,
Linus Walleij
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