> -----Original Message----- > From: Fabio Estevam [mailto:festevam@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 12:26 AM [...] > On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:42 AM A.s. Dong <aisheng.dong@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I'm a bit hesitate to do that as the driver already supports it. > > There's no extra effort to use it. And we probably could take ULP as a > > special case to test generic binding rather then simply drop it and > > drop driver features. Once we get objection from users later, we still can > simply fallback as there's still only official boards using it. > > We had this same discussion some months ago when we were reviewing > i.MX8 support. > > I don't see the value in doing pinctrl differently on i.MX7ULP. > I thought the situation is different as ULP actually already supports generic binding before that discussion. > > Last, it's not correct that there's not only one method for all i.MX devices. > > MX23/28 are different ones and ULP is more like MX23/28. > > And I saw no objections from users for MX23/28. > > Yes, but these are legacy platforms. > > For new ones, we should try to keep consistency, just like we discussed during > i.MX8 review. So the question is whether it's necessary to switch generic binding back to the legacy one for ULP. Personally I'm not strongly against this, but I need some confirmation from Shawn and Sascha. Shawn & Sascha, would you make a judgement call? If you also strongly request that, I will try to make it patch to test Linus W. Hopefully our agreement could satisfy Linus W. Regards Dong Aisheng
