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Message-ID: <20180223165455.GN93895@bjorns-mbp-2.lan>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2018 08:54:55 -0800
From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>,
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
"open list:GPIO SUBSYSTEM" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
"open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS"
<devicetree@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Support qcom pinctrl protected pins
On Fri 23 Feb 06:22 PST 2018, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 5:45 PM, Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org> wrote:
> > On 01/25/2018 07:13 PM, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> >>
> >> This patchset proposes a solution to describing the valid
> >> pins for a pin controller in a semi-generic way so that qcom
> >> platforms can expose the pins that are really available.
> >>
> >> Typically, this has been done by having drivers and firmware
> >> descriptions only use pins they know they have access to, and that
> >> still works now because we no longer read the pin direction at
> >> boot. But there are still some userspace drivers and debugfs facilities
> >> that don't know what pins are available and attempt to read everything
> >> they can. On qcom platforms, this may lead to a system hang, which isn't
> >> very nice behavior, even if root is the only user that can trigger it.
> >
> > Any progress on this patch set? Stephen no longer works for Qualcomm, so I
> > don't know what the next step is, and I really want this feature in 4.17
> > (we've missed so many merge windows already).
>
> I depend on Bjorn as maintainer of the pin control driver to ACK
> the solution he likes.
>
I haven't found the time to review the reuse of the irq valid mask or
the effort needed to replace this, other than that I think the series
looks good.
Regards,
Bjorn
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