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Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 10:50:19 +0800
From: Shawn Guo <shawnguo2@yeah.net>
To: Esben Haabendal <esben@geanix.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] ARM: imx: Allow user to disable pinctrl
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On Mon, May 06, 2024 at 12:23:53PM +0200, Esben Haabendal wrote:
> Making pinctrl drivers and subsequently the pinctrl framework
> user-controllable, allows building a kernel without this.
> While in many (most) cases, this could make the system unbootable, it
> does allow building smaller kernels for those situations where picntrl
> is not needed.
> 
> One such situation is when building a kernel for NXP LS1021A systems,
> which does not have run-time controllable pinctrl, so pinctrl framework
> and drivers are 100% dead-weight.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Esben Haabendal <esben@geanix.com>

Acked-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>