Messages in this thread | | | From | Laurent Pinchart <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/7] pinctrl: pinconf-generic: Infer map type from DT property | Date | Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:17:38 +0200 |
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Hi Sören,
On Wednesday 05 November 2014 10:09:35 Sören Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 03:56PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > > On Monday 03 November 2014 11:05:26 Soren Brinkmann wrote: > > > With the new 'groups' property, the DT parser can infer the map type > > > from the fact whether 'pins' or 'groups' is used to specify the pin > > > group to work on. > > > To maintain backwards compatibitliy with current usage of the DT > > > binding, this is only done when an invalid map type is passed to the > > > parsing function. > > > > The Renesas PFC implements similar bindings with using the vendor-specific > > properties "renesas,pins" and "renesas,groups" (bindings and > > implementation available at > > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/renesas,pfc-pinctrl.txt and > > drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pinctrl.c respectively). > > > > The Renesas implementation is a bit more generic in that it allows both > > pins and groups to be specified in a single subnode. Do you think that > > feature would make sense for pinconf-generic as well ? > > I don't have a use-case for that. I guess if somebody needs this kind of > functionality it could be added later. I would like to avoid blocking > pinctrl-zynq on adding more features here.
I'm fine with that, as long as the changes won't require breaking the DT ABI. I don't think they would but I wanted to raise the issue in case I would have missed a potential issue.
-- Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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