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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx pinctrl core driver
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:17:43PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:49:04AM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote:
> ...
> > My plan is:
> > 1) not all combinations, just define frequently used ones since
> > it's hard to define all combinations groups for per based IMX.
> > (maybe we can try to add a fix-up function which can do minor changes
> > based on available ones, then user does not need to write a new group
> > caused by only a small change.
> > what do you think?)
> >
> > 2) When dt supports macro, will try convert string to integer macro.
> > Then it maybe:
> > fsl,pins = <MX6Q_PAD_SD4_CMD 0
> > MX6Q_PAD_SD4_CLK 0
> > MX6Q_PAD_SD4_DAT0 1
> > .................>,
> > Why i did not start pin id with a raw integer is because it's less
> > meaning to user and
> > not easy to read in dts file.
> >
> We may want to use integer from the beginning to reduce the churn on
> driver later.
>
> I'm thinking about documenting the definition we used to have in
> iomux-mx*.h in the binding document and assign id to each of them
> in order.
>
> pinmux id
> ------ --
> MX6Q_PAD_SD2_DAT1__USDHC2_DAT1 0
> MX6Q_PAD_SD2_DAT1__ECSPI5_SS0 1
> MX6Q_PAD_SD2_DAT1__WEIM_WEIM_CS_2 2
> ...
>
> The ordering between the list and imx6q_pin_regs[] array need to match.
>
> By looking at the binding document, we can just put pinmux-id into
> property "fsl,pins" (maybe rename it to "fsl,pinmux-ids") to get the
> desired pinmux settings. With doing so, we can gain the following.
>
> 1) The pinmux-id can be used as index to locate the entry in array
> imx6q_pin_regs[], so that the slow string lookup can be avoid.
>
> 2) Property "fsl,mux" can be dropped, as it's been encoded in
> imx6q_pin_regs[] entry.
>
> 3) Converting the existing board files to device tree will be much
> easier. We only need to find the pinmux-id of those existing
> definitions and put them in "fsl, pinmux-ids".
>
> 4) When DTC support macro, we can simply move the pinmux-id list from
> binding document into dts file. No driver change is needed at all.
>
> Thoughts?

I like it. I think it will feel much more natural to use.

Sascha

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