On 10/23/2012 12:03 AM, Felipe Balbi wrote: > Hi, > > I much prefer having drivers explicitly manage all their resources, > which would mean that pinctrl calls need to be done on probe() and, if > necessary, during suspend()/resume().
Per-driver resource management is certainly convenient when you are dealing with a single system, but it becomes difficult to maintain for drivers that are shared among many platforms. The industry trend for many years has been consolidation around a single programming model per class of device. For example, SDHCI, EHCI, ATA. This trend will only accelerate, as the cost of developing controller IP and associated drivers increases. Such drivers need to be as platform-agnostic as possible. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
