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Message-ID: <ZtNBa4OZ1QO8WPlI@lizhi-Precision-Tower-5810>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:14:35 -0400
From: Frank Li <Frank.li@....com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: David Leonard <David.Leonard@...i.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@....com>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>, Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
	Jacky Bai <ping.bai@....com>,
	Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] pinctrl: ls1046a: Add pinctrl driver support

On Sat, Aug 31, 2024 at 12:26:47AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 9:20 PM Frank Li <Frank.li@....com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 12:12:24PM +1000, David Leonard wrote:
> > >
> > > Add QorIQ LS1046A pinctrl driver allowing i2c-core to exert
> > > GPIO control over the third and fourth I2C buses.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: David Leonard <David.Leonard@...i.com>
> > > ---
> >
> > Why not use pinctrl-single,  please ref fsl,lx2160x.dtsi for GPIO/i2c
> > recover.
>
> I'm not so sure about that. Since the 1012 need to use a unique
> driver this will be confusing across the family: one chip has
> registers and values defined in the device tree, another has
> them in the driver, if possible I would advice to keep this
> consistent across sibling SoCs.

There are not new productions of Layerscape. IMX will take over these.
There are only few I2C pins need mux to gpio. It is not wonth to add
new driver for it if pinctrl-single can work.

And 1012 pinctrl driver was not shared with 1046.

Frank

>
> I can't stop anyone from using pinctrl-single but it's a bit
> seductive in it's simplicity, while not always so user-friendly
> with all the magic that ends up in the device trees.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

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