linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] ARM: imx: Allow user to disable pinctrl

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Message-ID: <8734lmj2la.fsf@geanix.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:28:33 +0200
From: Esben Haabendal <esben@...nix.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,  Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
  Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,  Pengutronix Kernel Team
 <kernel@...gutronix.de>,  Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,  Dong
 Aisheng <aisheng.dong@....com>,  Jacky Bai <ping.bai@....com>,  Arnd
 Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,  Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villemoes@...vas.dk>,
  linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,  imx@...ts.linux.dev,
  linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,  linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] ARM: imx: Allow user to disable pinctrl

Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org> writes:

> On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 12:24 PM Esben Haabendal <esben@...nix.com> wrote:
>
>> Making pinctrl drivers and subsequently the pinctrl framework
>> user-controllable, allows building a kernel without this.
>> While in many (most) cases, this could make the system unbootable, it
>> does allow building smaller kernels for those situations where picntrl
>> is not needed.
>>
>> One such situation is when building a kernel for NXP LS1021A systems,
>> which does not have run-time controllable pinctrl, so pinctrl framework
>> and drivers are 100% dead-weight.
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Esben Haabendal <esben@...nix.com>
>
> Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
>
> I guess this needs to be merged through the SoC tree.

Anything more I need to make that happen?

/Esben