Re: [PATCH 3/3] ARM: dts: enable pinctrl for Broadcom NSP

[Ray Jui]

On 12/1/2015 8:05 AM, Scott Branden wrote:
> Hi Linus,
>
> On 15-12-01 02:00 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Florian Fainelli
> > <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On 20/11/15 09:58, Yendapally Reddy Dhananjaya Reddy wrote:
> > > > This enables the pinctrl support for Broadcom NSP SoC
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yendapally Reddy Dhananjaya Reddy
> > > > <yrdreddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Looks like a sane pinctrl node here, unless there are objections, I
> > > would like to go ahead and apply this for v4.5, thanks!
> >
> > I'm waiting for an indication from the other BCM pinctrl
> > maintainers to tell whether this SoC is unique enough to deserve
> > its own driver.
> If Stephen Warren is the other maintainer you are talking about he does
> not work at Broadcom.  I don't think he is familiar with the variety of
> pinctrl implementations present.  But yes, the pinctrl implementations
> have been rather unique in these Socs.  As Ray indicated we're trying to
> get the silicon designers to standardize more going forward so we don't
> have to create unique drivers for these SoCs.

Yes. Hopefully NSP and NS2 will be the last iProc based SoCs that 
require unique pinmux driver.

> > Yours,
> > Linus Walleij
>
> Regards,
>   Scott

Thanks,

Ray
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