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

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Message-ID: <ZvUd7PekQ4pVXQGU@dragon>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 16:40:12 +0800
From: Shawn Guo <shawnguo2@...h.net>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Esben Haabendal <esben@...nix.com>,
	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

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 09:45:32AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> 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.

Hi Linus,

Reading your comment[1], I was thinking that you will merge the series
through pinctrl tree, no?

Shawn

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/CACRpkdYbOTXmap-vJy4JNZSaZnE=yzC35EPD2F=bD8gWdD8-GQ@mail.gmail.com/