On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 08:49:36PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Christian Ruppert > <christian.ruppert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 06:53:56PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote: > >> > >> OK, that can also be called a "bank" or "register" but whatever. > > > > As you suggested below I re-read Documentation/pinctrl.txt and it got me > > even more confused: > > Am I right in my understanding that the whole concept of a > > "port/bank/register" or whatever we would like to call it does not exist > > in the pinctrl framework? > > Not that I know :-) > > If what it means is a number of registers from address x thru x+n > words in memory that is called a register range usually, the > Device Tree "regs" property. > > If you're referring to a subset of registers dealing with a batch > of pins or a single pin that can use whatever terminology you > want, I consider it a driver-internal detail. Some GPIO drivers > talk about "ports" when they have e.g. 2 x 32bit registers > handling a total of 64 pins, then that is port 0 and port 1 or > something like this, but it's really up to the driver. Actually, it's a set of pins the muxing of which is controlled by the same register. E.g. Port A is the set of all the pins which are controlled by register field A. Greetings, Christian -- Christian Ruppert , <christian.ruppert@xxxxxxxxxx> /| Tel: +41/(0)22 816 19-42 //| 3, Chemin du Pré-Fleuri _// | bilis Systems CH-1228 Plan-les-Ouates -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html