RE: [RFC PATCH v3 2/5] pinctrl: add dt binding support for pinmux mappings

[Dong Aisheng-B29396 <B29396@freescale.com>]

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> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 2/5] pinctrl: add dt binding support for pinmux
> mappings
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> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:56:52PM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > Dong Aisheng wrote at Thursday, January 12, 2012 1:36 AM:
> > > Stephen Warren wrote at Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:18 AM:
> > > > Dong Aisheng wrote at Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:21 AM:
> > > > > Stephen Warren wrote at Saturday, January 07, 2012 2:03 AM:
> > ...
> > > > Personally, I think I'd be OK with the sysfs pinctrl map file only
> > > > containing the map entries for devices that had used the pinctrl
> > > > API, and hence only parsing the pinmux properties in pinmux_get().
> > >
> > > Actually I already did it like that in the patch I sent:
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/5/153
> > >
> > > Originally I'd like to do like that but I found an inconsistent
> > > issue that the sysfs pinctrl map file will behave differently
> > > between dt and non-dt Platform. For non-dt, it means showing all
> > > exist map entries. For dt, it means Only used pinmux map entries.
> > >
> > > And in current design when device calls pinmux_get, it will search a
> > > predefined pinmux_maps array to find which function and group it is binded
> to.
> > > If switch to the new way, we only dynamically create pinmux map and
> > > dynamically register it when pinmux_get is called, first we need to
> > > change the code path in pinmux_get in a totally different way,
> > > second for support that we may also better to change pinmux_maps array to a
> list.
> > > But after changing the pinmux_maps to a list, what about using in non-dt?
> > >
> > > So without any strong reason i still think it would be better to
> > > keep consistency With the non-dt pinctrl subsystem.
> > > And the effort would be minimum since besides constructing the map
> > > by parsing Device tree, everyting is the same as before in pinmux
> > > map and we could re-use the current code.
> >
> > OK. I think this can work out pretty easily with a bus notifier as I
> > mentioned before.
> >
Sorry I did not catch your idea before.
I will try to see if I can find an example.

> > But, one thought on doing this in pinmux_get(). I'd simply implement a
> > Function that read a DT node's pinmux property/node, converted it to a
> > pinmux mapping table, and registered it with the pinctrl core. Then,
> > pinmux_get() could simply call this before doing anything else at all.
> > I don't think you'd need to modify how pinmux_get() worked at all.
> >
> This sounds like a pretty good idea to me.
> 
This does not fix the inconsistency issue.
Additionally as I said before, for better support dynamically register pinmux
Map, it looks we'd better change the pinmux_maps array to a list.
However this is for dt case.
But for non-dt case, the static array is just ok.
So there's conflict.
Not sure if any better idea to fix this.

Regards
Dong Aisheng