Hi Linus,
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:46 AM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Michel Pollet
> <michel.pollet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > *WARNING* -- this requires:
> > + R9A06G032 base patch v9
> > + R9A06G032 SMP patch v5
>
> Is that required for the pin controller itself (compile-time dependence)
> or is it required to boot the system (run-time dependence)?
Obviously the last 3 patches in the series touch the DTS, so they depend
on the base patch adding the DTS files.
> We can merge support for pin control ahead, that's fine.
The actual pinctrl driver can indeed be merged separately.
> > This implements the pinctrl driver for the R9A06G032.
>
> Geert Uytterhoeven and Laurent Pinchart maintains the Renesas pin
> controllers, and this one is for some reason a totally new one in
> drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-r9a06g032.c
>
> Is it totally different from the other "great old ones" in the SuperH-PFC
> series or is there some other reason why it was done like this?
Yes it is, cfr. drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rza1.c, which lives outside sh-pfc, too.
Of course I can take it through my sh-pfc tree, once the rough edges have been
removed.
Thanks!
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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