linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] pinctrl: pinconf-generic: move ..dt_node_to_map

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Message-ID: <aYNWMndBWxxoPABG@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2026 16:22:42 +0200
From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>
To: Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linusw@...nel.org>,
	Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@...rochip.com>,
	Xianwei Zhao <xianwei.zhao@...ogic.com>,
	Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
	Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>,
	Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@...glemail.com>,
	linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] pinctrl: pinconf-generic: move ..dt_node_to_map_pinmux()
 to amlogic-am4 driver

On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 02:15:10PM +0000, Conor Dooley wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 09:05:34AM +0100, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 12:34:36AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 5:17 PM Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org> wrote:

...

> > Note, please, remove extra '.' (dot) in the Subject.o
> 
> fwiw, the .. was intentional cos I was truncating the pinconf_generic
> from the function since the subject was really long, not referring to
> a member of an ops struct.

Yes, and that's how we refer to the callbacks — with a single dot and parentheses:

	.my_cool_cb()

Alternatively

	->my_cool_cb()

but it one character longer and TBH it slightly less readable (I personally
used the latter and then switched to the former in the recent years).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko