On Mon 16 Dec 02:01 PST 2013, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 10:35 PM, Christian Daudt <bcm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I had requested this from Sherman. The reason is so that pinctrl can > > be selectable through defconfig, instead of through SoC select > > statements. And the reason for that is so that, in the future, some of > > these can be switched into loadable modules (which can't be done from > > Kconfig). This will become necessary with the move to multiplatform - > > we won't be able to have everything static anymore. > > Isn't it sufficient to make the pin controller entry tristate rather > than bool? > > And as mentioned elsewhere this does not at all solve the issue > that we still need to have all basic IRQchips and timer drivers > compiled into the kernel. No matter how we build the individual pinctrl drivers we will always need the pinctrl framework in a multi-soc zImage; so I can't see that we gain anything from being able to compile PINCTRL as a module. I don't like compiling the individual pinctrl drivers as modules, as it leaves us with a waterfall of PROBE_DEFERRs. Regards, Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
