linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/2] pinctrl: introduce complex pin description

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Message-ID: <557EF6D9.6050503@wwwdotorg.org>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 10:01:29 -0600
From:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>
To:	Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@...el.com>
CC:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linus.walleij@...aro.org, nicolas.ferre@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 2/2] pinctrl: introduce complex pin description

On 06/10/2015 09:04 AM, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> Using a string to describe a pin in the device tree can be not enough.
> Some controllers may need extra information to fully describe a pin. It
> concerns mainly controllers which have a per pin muxing approach which
> don't fit well the notions of groups and functions.
> Instead of using a pin name, a 32 bit value is used. The 16 least
> significant bits are used for the pin number. Other 16 bits can be used to
> store extra parameters.

The driver for the pin controller is supposed to provide this 
information in a table. The whole point of having a driver, rather than 
a table/list of raw register values in the DT, is so the driver can 
provide this information at a semantic level. This information is fixed 
per SoC and so make sense to put into a driver, while the board-specific 
configuration varies wildly, and hence makes sense to put into DT.


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