linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: document the pinctrl PM states

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Date:	Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:05:18 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Cc:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...aro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: document the pinctrl PM states

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> wrote:

> First, I think the concept of remuxing (or even checking) _all_ the pins
> for a consumer device is wrong on most if not all hardware. For past 10
> years I have not seen a case where _all_ the pins for a device would need
> to be remuxed for any reason.

We may be talking past each other here. On the ux500 we use a lot
of runtime pincontrol, but none of this is *remuxing*.

We are only *reconfiguring*.

Now I know that Haojian only recently added pin config to the
pinctrl-single.c driver so maybe you have mostly seen muxing
in your driver so far, so you view of the world is a bit different.

On the Nomadik pin controller we do mostly hogged muxing
at boot time, but a lot of runtime reconfiguration. So our
needs are very different.

Bear in mind that struct pinctl * forks effects in two paths,
one is muxing the other is config, like pull-ups etc.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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