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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/3] ARM: dts: at91: add pincontrol node for USB Host
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 04:26:52PM +0100, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
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> Hello,
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> On 18/11/2020 16:03:36+0100, Ludovic Desroches wrote:
> > At first glance, there is no trivial way to register the pin range in the
> > pinctrl-at91 driver. There is one driver for the pinctrl and one for the gpio.
> > I am open to suggestions to fix it in the pinctrl-at91 driver as well if there
> > is an elegant way (I have some in mind, but there are not) without having to
> > refactor the driver.
> >
>
> But shouldn't that driver be refactored at some point anyway? I know you
> are moving away with new SoCs but it causes real issues. For example,
> gpio hogs are not working, this is impacting some of your customers.
>

I agree, maintainance of this driver is difficult because of its design.
Unfortunately, I doubt being able to hadnle a refactoring of this driver in a
near future.

> The other thing is the weird probe order preventing a nice cleanup of
> the platform code.

True. IMO, having gpio controlers probed before pinctrl is one of the reason
which prevents a trivial fix.

Regards

Ludovic

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