linux-kernel - Re: pinctrl-sx150x.c broken in 4.11

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Date:   Thu, 11 May 2017 22:11:05 +0300
From:   Nikita Yushchenko <nikita.yoush@...entembedded.com>
To:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Cc:     Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@...il.com>,
        Chris Healy <Chris.Healy@....aero>,
        Jeff White <Jeff.White@....aero>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>
Subject: Re: pinctrl-sx150x.c broken in 4.11

>>> Maybe create_pinctrl() could check if the pin controller device
>>> for a potential hog points to the device itself and bail out
>>> if that's not the case?
>>
>> Well that's exactly what patch from my first mail in this thread does.
>> This indeed fixes my case, but I don't know if it is correct in generic
>> case.
> 
> OK, yeah I just looked it up as I was not in cc.
> 
>> Should I submit it? Do you ack?
> 
> Yeah please submit a proper patch. I assume you already checked
> that this change only affects the pinctrl hogs only, not regular
> device pins? I'd assume so as it's in create_pinctrl()..

Regular device pins go via pinctrl_get() which calls create_pinctrl()
with second argument set to NULL.