On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:15 AM, Ray Jui <[email protected]> wrote:
> In some of the future iProc based SoCs, pinconf is handled by another > block and the iProc GPIO controller is solely used as a GPIO controller. > This patch adds support of a new compatible string "brcm,iproc-gpio-only", > that is introduced to handle this case, where pinconf functions in this > driver are completely disabled > > Signed-off-by: Ray Jui <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Yendapally Reddy Dhananjaya Reddy <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Jon Mason <[email protected]> > Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <[email protected]> If this was entirely true, then the driver should end up only executing [devm_]gpiochip_add_data() but that does not seem to be the case. You are still registering a pin controller, right? Just disabling some of the pin config options. The pin multiplexing is still there, right? Then it is not "solely a GPIO controller". Not at all. This patch set needs some elaboration I think. Yours, Linus Walleij
