Hi Jorik, On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 02:09:32PM +0200, Jorik Jonker wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:04:25AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote: > >Unfortunately, these pins can be used for other purposes as well, so > >we cannot make force that decision down to our users. > > Yes, but since the associated peripheral is disabled, the users are free to > configure other functions/peripherals, right? I mean something like this in > pseudo-DT: > > /soc/pio: pinctrl@01c20800/uart1_pins: > allwinner,pins = "PG6, PG7"; > /soc/pio: pinctrl@01c20800/foo0_pins: > allwinner,pins = "PG6, PG7"; > .. > /soc/uart1: serial@serial@01c28400: > pinctrl-0 = <&uart1_pins>; > status = "disabled"; > /soc/bar: > pinctrl-0 = <&uart1_pins>; > status = "disabled"; > > Assuming Linux/DT allows this, this would force nothing, only offer choice > and ease of use.
Hmm, sorry, I went over your patches too quickly... That's a great compromise I think. Chen-Yu, any opinion on this? Thanks, Maxime -- Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com
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