* Trent Piepho <tpie...@gmail.com> [200924 05:49]: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:43 PM Tony Lindgren <t...@atomide.com> wrote: > > > > * Trent Piepho <tpie...@gmail.com> [200924 01:34]: > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:57 PM Tony Lindgren <t...@atomide.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Also FYI, folks have also complained for a long time that the > > > > pinctrl-single > > > > binding mixes mux and conf values while they should be handled > > > > separately. > > > > > > > > > > Instead of combining two fields when the dts is generated they are now > > > combined when the pinctrl-single driver reads the dts. Other than > > > this detail, the result is the same. The board dts source is the > > > same. The value programmed into the pinctrl register is the same. > > > There is no mechanism currently that can alter that value in any way. > > > > > > What does combining them later allow that is not possible now? > > > > It now allows further driver changes to manage conf and mux separately :) > > The pinctrl-single driver? How will that work with boards that are > not am335x and don't use conf and mux fields in the same manner as > am335x?
For those cases we still have #pinctrl-cells = <1>. Regards, Tony
