Re: [PATCH] ARM: pxa: activate pinctrl for device-tree machines

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Sun Apr 03 2016 - 15:14:42 EST


On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pincontrol is not yet ready for all PXA platforms.
> For example, a legacy platform, if PINCTRL was activated, will fail its
> calls to gpio_request() or gpio_direction_output(), as the pinctrl
> driver might not be available, such as for pxa25x and pxa3xx.
>
> As a step forward, activate pincontrol for all device-tree available
> machines, ie. pxa27x device-tree based and pxa3xx device-tree based.
>
> If it appears later that pincontrol is also required for legacy
> platforms and if the mfp->pinctrl conversion can be achieved, then
> PINCTRL will be activated for the whole PXA architecture.
>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij