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SubjectRe: [PATCH] ARM: at91: spi: request all csgpio in spi probe
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On Aug 1, 2014, at 12:48 AM, Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> wrote:

>
> On 01/08/2014 at 00:10:05 +0800, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote :
>>>>> While this solves the particular issue Jiří is seeing, this will not
>>>>> solve the case where PA14 (CS0) is not used by the spi driver at all. It
>>>>> will remained muxed as CS0 and toggle when the spi master needs to
>>>>> access CS0 until another driver muxes it to something else. I still
>>>>> believe we should explicitly ask pinctrl to mux them as gpios.
>>
>> This is not the job of the kernel but to the bootloader
>> no the pinctrl binding is not here and will never be here the configure a pin as a GPIO or
>
> This is exactly what AT91_PERIPH_GPIO does though. Anyway, not request
> the pinmuxing in the driver is not a good idea, then nothing prevents
> another driver to request them to do something completely different.

here it’s the same issue if you need to pin as GPIO use the GPIO API not the pinctrl

AT91_PERIPH_GPIO is use the set specific pinmux (bouncing & etc…)


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>> to a specific state. This the job of the driver or the bootloader
>>
>
> I agree that it must not allow to set the state, we are talking about
> muxing.
>
>
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> Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com

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