| Date | Wed, 21 Nov 2012 15:51:54 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/42] SH pin control and GPIO rework | From | Linus Walleij <> |
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On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:27 AM, Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> wrote:
> The idea behind these patches is to move SoC-specific pin control code from > arch/ to drivers/pinctrl/ and use the Linux device model to instantiate the > pin control device. This is required to add device tree support for the pin > control device.
Ah, this looks nice :-)
> The SH7264 and SH7269 platforms have no gpiolib support so the PFC code can't > be compiled for them. As the currently implemented arch-level pinmux support > also depends on generic GPIO, we're moving from a situation where the code > isn't used to a different situation where the code isn't used. I don't > consider that as a regression.
That's OK, would be nice to get rid of this one day though.
I will try to go through and review patches individually. I'll focus on pinctrl/GPIO mechanisms and trust you and Paul M to know that the SH side of things are correct.
Yours, Linus Walleij
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