Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755235Ab2BFVFL (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:05:11 -0500 Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org ([204.13.248.72]:21052 "EHLO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751266Ab2BFVFJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2012 16:05:09 -0500 X-Mail-Handler: MailHop Outbound by DynDNS X-Originating-IP: 98.234.237.12 X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX19/x1EPuHjMPibDUA7GxgeN Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 13:04:56 -0800 From: Tony Lindgren To: Linus Walleij Cc: Stephen Warren , Dong Aisheng , Shawn Guo , Dong Aisheng-B29396 , "Sascha Hauer (s.hauer@pengutronix.de)" , "rob.herring@calxeda.com" , "kernel@pengutronix.de" , "cjb@laptop.org" , "Simon Glass (sjg@chromium.org)" , Thomas Abraham , "Grant Likely (grant.likely@secretlab.ca)" , "devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: An extremely simplified pinctrl bindings proposal Message-ID: <20120206210456.GV1426@atomide.com> References: <74CDBE0F657A3D45AFBB94109FB122FF178E5D3160@HQMAIL01.nvidia.com> <4F2F6AE2.1040504@nvidia.com> <20120206190315.GU1426@atomide.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1370 Lines: 36 * Linus Walleij [120206 11:25]: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > So far the only > > change needed for pinctrl drivers containing no data is that > > we should make the string names optional and structure debugfs > > around the physical register addresses instead. I'm basically > > just setting the mux register physcal address as the pin name > > for now to work around this. > > OK please make a patch to do it really optional in the core if > you find the time, it seems like a good change anyway, because > it will make it possible to reduce some current pin name lists > quite easily. OK, will take a look at that. > If you need to change the layout of debugfs just do it. > > I actually had something like unnamed pins in the early patches > to register a bunch of anonymous pins ranges, so why not bring > it back in. Yeah it seems that the mux registers should be listed, it might require a little bit of thinking for cases where one register controls multiple pins. So maybe we need just a new entry for mux registers? Regards, Tony -- 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/