On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 5:35 AM, Dong Aisheng <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 03:37:54PM +0800, Shawn Guo wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 12:03:16PM +0800, Dong Aisheng wrote: >> ... >> > For MX3 and MX5, before their pinctrl driver are available, user may >> > need to define a dummy in dt to avoid such an error. >> > >> That is insane, and will not work. >> >> 1) We do not have device tree support for MX3 yet. >> 2) It's not practical to add dummy entries in dt to avoid the error. >> 3) There are still so many non-dt board files support in the tree. >> How will they work with that? >> >> My suggestion is to not make it an error but a dev_dbg, assuming that >> the pins are already set up by platform code if we do not find the >> entry from pinctrl system. We can take it as a transition solution, >> and turn the dev_dbg back to error when all the users of the device >> driver are converted to device tree. >> > My thinking is let pinctrl core handle dummy state as regulator subsystem > and does not depend on dt. > Linus, Stephen, any comment?
I think this was discussed in another thread and Sascha agreed that wee need dummy pinctrl to copy with a smooth transition in i.MX. So I'm happy with that, we just need to finalize a patch, poke me if I missed some patch... Yours, Linus Walleij _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
