On 08/14/2013 10:27 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:21 PM, Stephen Warren <swar...@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>> On 08/14/2013 09:54 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Sonic Zhang <sonic....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zh...@analog.com>
>>>>
>>>> One peripheral may share part of its pins with the 2nd
>>>> peripheral and the other pins with the 3rd. If it requests all pins
>>>> when part of them has already be requested and owned by the 2nd
>>>> peripheral, this request fails and pinmux_disable_setting() is called.
>>>> The pinmux_disable_setting() frees all pins of the first peripheral
>>>> without checking if the pin is owned by itself or the 2nd, which
>>>> results in the malfunction of the 2nd peripheral driver.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sonic Zhang <sonic.zh...@analog.com>
>>>
>>> Hm it makes some sense so patch applied.
>>>
>>> That said I think we currently have drivers where a pin group
>>> mapped to a certain function in a certain setting  *usually*
>>> don't overlap with pins in another group used with another
>>> function, and having it so seems racy, i.e. it will be some
>>> first-come-first-serve effect.
>>>
>>> I will add a warning print.
>>
>> Surely there's a warning print already when the enable_setting() fails,
>> so we don't need to do any more warning prints when the free_setting()
>> cleans up after that?
> 
> Now I'm confused ... I added debug prints to pinmux_disable_setting()
> which is where the patch hits? free_setting() is just an empty function
> body still.

I wrote the wrong function name; s/free_setting/disable_setting/ in what
I wrote.
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