Subject: Re: pinctrl-amd: What hardware does it apply to?
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
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        Sudheesh Mavila <sudheesh.mavila@amd.com>,
        platypus-sw <platypus-sw@opengear.com>,
        Timur Tabi <timur@codeaurora.org>
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From: Andrew Cooks <andrew.cooks@opengear.com>
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 10:44:06 +1000
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Hi Linus

On 21/12/17 20:11, Linus Walleij wrote:
> Hi Andrew!
> 
> Thank you for your mail!
> 
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 11:25 PM, Andrew Cooks
> <andrew.cooks@opengear.com> wrote:
> 
>> Another driver (gpio-sb8xx) was submitted for upstream inclusion, but was
>> knocked back with the suggestion that pinctrl is the way forward[3].
> 
> Hm I cannot follow link [3] right now. And I don't remember the submission :(
> It doesn't seem to be in my mail archives either.

Here's the same thread in a different list archive: https://marc.info/?t=143483759600001&r=1&w=2

> 
> Timur Tabi from CodeAurora is currently
> floating a patch set that makes it possible to remove entire sets of
> lines as "controlled by someone else" (read: ACPI BIOS).
> This will apply to the whole GPIO chip.
> https://marc.info/?l=linux-gpio&m=151379704013464&w=2
> 
> This is however under heavy discussion.

Thanks, I'm following that discussion.


Andrew