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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 10:40:51 +0200 From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> To: Sonic Zhang <sonic.adi@...il.com> Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>, Steven Miao <realmz6@...il.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, adi-buildroot-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@...log.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 v3] pinctrl: ADI PIN control driver for the GPIO controller on bf54x and bf60x. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Sonic Zhang <sonic.adi@...il.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> wrote: >> This is similar to the situation in the pinctrl-nomadik.c driver, >> where the pinctrl portions wait for the GPIO devices to instantiate >> before proceeding to probe "on top" of the GPIO blocks, using >> the latter to get to the registers. >> >> I am not sure we have found the best way to sort out this >> type of system, let's see what we can come up with. > > In the blackfin pinctrol-adi2 driver, I probe all gpio devices > independently after all logic pinctrl devices. When one gpio device is > probed, it can get its pinctrl device name from its platform data and > add its gpio range into the pinctrl device via > gpiochip_add_pin_range(). The gpio device don't need to know anything > else about its pinctrl device. This is ideal in the situation when there is a clear separation between the GPIO and pin control (muxing, biasing) registers. So you're doing the right thing. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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