Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: imx6q: switch to use pinctrl driver

[Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:37:54PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:03:16PM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> ...
> > For MX3 and MX5, before their pinctrl driver are available, user may
> > need to define a dummy in dt to avoid such an error.
> > 
> That is insane, and will not work.
> 
> 1) We do not have device tree support for MX3 yet.
> 2) It's not practical to add dummy entries in dt to avoid the error.
> 3) There are still so many non-dt board files support in the tree.
> How will they work with that?
> 
> My suggestion is to not make it an error but a dev_dbg, assuming that
> the pins are already set up by platform code if we do not find the
> entry from pinctrl system.  We can take it as a transition solution,
> and turn the dev_dbg back to error when all the users of the device
> driver are converted to device tree.
> 
My thinking is let pinctrl core handle dummy state as regulator subsystem
and does not depend on dt.
Linus, Stephen, any comment?

Regards
Dong Aisheng


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