Re: [PATCH 1/7] pinctrl: sunxi: refactor pinctrl variants into flags

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Dne ponedeljek, 11. november 2024 ob 01:57:44 Srednjeevropski standardni čas je Andre Przywara napisal(a):
> For some Allwinner SoCs we have one pinctrl driver caring for multiple
> very similar chips, and are tagging certain pins with a variant bitmask.
> The Allwinner D1 introduced a slightly extended register layout, and we
> were abusing this variant mask to convey this bit of information into
> the common code part.
> Now there will be more pinctrl device properties to consider (has PortF
> voltage switch, for instance), so shoehorning this into the variant
> bitmask will not fly anymore.
> 
> Refactor the "variant" field into a more generic "flags" field. It turns
> out that we don't need the variant bits to be unique across all SoCs,
> but only among those SoCs that share one driver (table), of which there
> are at most three variants at the moment. So the actual variant field can
> be limited to say 8 bits, and the other bits in the flag register can be
> re-purposed to hold other information, like this extended register
> layout.
> As a side effect we can move the variant definition into the per-SoC
> pinctrl driver file, which makes it more obvious that this is just a
> private definition, only relevant for this particular table.
> This also changes the artificial sun20i-d1 "variant" into the actual
> flag bit that we are after.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>

That looks pretty neat cleanup.

Reviewed-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Jernej







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