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SubjectRe: [REGRESSION][BISECTED] i.MX6 pinctrl hogs stopped working
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On 10.04.2018 13:21, Richard Fitzgerald wrote:
> On 04/04/18 06:33, Mika Penttilä wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Reverting this made the hogs on a i.MX6 board work again. :
>>
>>
>> commit b89405b6102fcc3746f43697b826028caa94c823
>> Author: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@opensource.cirrus.com>
>> Date:   Wed Feb 28 15:53:06 2018 +0000
>>
>>      pinctrl: devicetree: Fix dt_to_map_one_config handling of hogs
>>
>>
>>
>> --Mika
>>
>
> I think you should check whether the bug is with the i.MX6 driver
> relying on the previous buggy behaviour of pinctrl. I haven't got
> i.MX6 hardware to test myself.
>
> The bug I fixed in that patch was that when pinctrl is probing a
> pinctrl driver it would try to apply all the pinctrl settings
> listed in a dt node to the pinctrl driver it is probing instead
> of the pinctrl drivers they actually refer to. This was a bug
> introduced by an earlier patch (which unfortunately I forgot to
> include a fixes line reference to)
>
>   pinctrl: core: Use delayed work for hogs
>
> So if a pinctrl driver "A" had a dependency on another pinctrl
> driver "B" those dependencies wouldn't be properly created because
> all the "B" pinctrl DT entries would be attempted against "A"
> instead of "B". This caused failures if a pinctrl driver had a
> dependency on another pinctrl driver, of if creating a pinctrl
> driver that is a child of an MFD and that MFD has dependencies
> on another pinctrl driver.
>

Hard to say, but the kernel/dts has worked ok for 3+ years, from 3.17 until 4.17-rc. Nothing fancy, just normal hogs, in two groups.
Can send you relevant pieces of DT if interested.

--Mika

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