linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] pinctrl: core: Use delayed work for hogs

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Date:   Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:31:06 -0800
From:   Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
To:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...aro.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
        Nishanth Menon <nm@...com>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devicetree@...r.kernel.org" <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-omap@...r.kernel.org" <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-Renesas <linux-renesas-soc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] pinctrl: core: Use delayed work for hogs

* Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> [170111 08:29]:
> * Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> [170111 07:34]:
> > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Below is an experimental fix to intorduce pinctrl_start() that I've
> > > tested with pinctrl-single. Then we should probably make all pin controller
> > > drivers call pinctrl_start() to properly fix the issue of struct pinctrl_dev
> > > handle not being initialized before driver functions are called.
> > 
> > Hm I guess that could work, but can we keep pinctrl_register() with the old
> > semantics and add a separate pinctrl_register_and_defer()
> > for those who just wanna start it later by a separate call?
> > 
> > Then we don't need any special flags.
> 
> OK I'll take a look.
> 
> > > Or do you guys have any better ideas?
> > 
> > Not really. So you mean revert the previous patch and apply something
> > like this instead?
> 
> Let me first take a look to see if we can fix it by making drivers using
> GENERIC_PINCTRL_GROUPS or GENERIC_PINMUX_FUNCTIONS register with
> pinctrl_register_and_defer(). I'll post a patch for that today.

Yeah we can fix this by reverting the late_init parts of the earlier
attempt and introducing a new pinctrl_register_and_init() for controllers
to use:

extern int pinctrl_register_and_init(struct pinctrl_desc *pctldesc,
				     struct device *dev, void *driver_data,
				     struct pinctrl_dev **pctldev);

> Then maybe for v4.12 we can attempt to move all pin controller drivers
> to using it so we can fix the problem for good.

And that will also make converting existing drivers to use it later on
trivial.

Will post a patch shortly after some more testing.

Regards,

Tony