linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: imx6q: switch to use pinctrl driver

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Message-ID: <20120420010845.GV16641@game.jcrosoft.org>
Date:	Fri, 20 Apr 2012 03:08:45 +0200
From:	Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@...osoft.com>
To:	Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@...escale.com>
Cc:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Dong Aisheng <dongas86@...il.com>,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rob.herring@...xeda.com, kernel@...gutronix.de,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linus.walleij@...ricsson.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: imx6q: switch to use pinctrl driver

On 11:35 Mon 16 Apr     , Dong Aisheng wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:37:54PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:03:16PM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> > ...
> > > For MX3 and MX5, before their pinctrl driver are available, user may
> > > need to define a dummy in dt to avoid such an error.
> > > 
> > That is insane, and will not work.
> > 
> > 1) We do not have device tree support for MX3 yet.
> > 2) It's not practical to add dummy entries in dt to avoid the error.
> > 3) There are still so many non-dt board files support in the tree.
> > How will they work with that?
> > 
> > My suggestion is to not make it an error but a dev_dbg, assuming that
> > the pins are already set up by platform code if we do not find the
> > entry from pinctrl system.  We can take it as a transition solution,
> > and turn the dev_dbg back to error when all the users of the device
> > driver are converted to device tree.
> > 
> My thinking is let pinctrl core handle dummy state as regulator subsystem
> and does not depend on dt.
> Linus, Stephen, any comment?
agreed with Shawn

this is insane if you can an error you do need to report it

I get the same issue on at91 and I'm going to make the pinctrl mandatory for DT
only

Best Regards,
J.
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