linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 19/20] pinctrl: API changes to support multiple states per device

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Message-ID: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF17BD8BC976@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:46:51 -0800
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
CC:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	"B29396@...escale.com" <B29396@...escale.com>,
	"s.hauer@...gutronix.de" <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	"dongas86@...il.com" <dongas86@...il.com>,
	"shawn.guo@...aro.org" <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	"thomas.abraham@...aro.org" <thomas.abraham@...aro.org>,
	"tony@...mide.com" <tony@...mide.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 19/20] pinctrl: API changes to support multiple states
 per device

Linus Walleij wrote at Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:55 PM:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com> wrote:

...
> This is looking real good. I think recent discussion with Russell
> also ironed out the problems with potential gpio interaction.

Hmm. I guess I need to go re-read that then; my impression was that we
hadn't really reached a solid conclusion yet.

...
> Please move this patch as far to the head of the series as possible
> so we can get it in, I guess you need the state lookup in struct pinctrl
> to proceed but could we e.g. puy the locking changes after this?

The main reason I wrote the patches like the locking patch was due to
issues I found when working on these two main patches. I'm not sure that
these later patches would work completely correctly without the locking
rework first...

-- 
nvpublic

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