Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932430AbaDVMsJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:48:09 -0400 Received: from mail-oa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.219.54]:47220 "EHLO mail-oa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932231AbaDVMsF convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 08:48:05 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1397135274-10764-2-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> References: <1397135274-10764-1-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> <1397135274-10764-2-git-send-email-antoine.tenart@free-electrons.com> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 14:48:04 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 1/5] pinctrl: allows not to define the get_group_pins operation From: Linus Walleij To: =?UTF-8?Q?Antoine_T=C3=A9nart?= Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth , Alexandre Belloni , zmxu@marvell.com, Jisheng Zhang , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "devicetree@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Antoine Ténart wrote: > When using a group only pinctrl driver, which does not have any > information on the pins it is useless to define a get_group_pins > always returning an empty list of pins. > > When not using get_group_pin[1], a driver must implement it so > pins = NULL and num_pins = 0. This patch makes it the default > behaviour if not defined in the pinctrl driver when used in > pinmux enable and disable funtions and in pinctrl_groups_show. > > It also adds a check in pinctrl_get_group_pins and return -EINVAL if > not defined. This function is called in the gpiolib when adding when > pingroup range. It cannot be used if no group is defined, so this seams > reasonable. > > [1] get_group_pin(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, > unsigned selector, > const unsigned **pins, > unsigned *num_pins); > > Signed-off-by: Antoine Ténart OK makes perfect sense. Patch applied. Can you please check the Documentation/pinctrl.txt to see if anything needs to be updated due to this? Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/