Re: [PATCH] [v2] pinctrl: add support for Qualcomm Technologies QDF2xxx ARM64 SoCs

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add the pinctrl driver for the Qualcomm Technologies QDF2xxx ARM64 SoCs,
> which uses the Qualcomm Technologies TLMM pinctrl/gpio device.  This
> driver is probed via ACPI and uses the pinctrl-msm.c backend driver.
>
> This driver is intended to be used only an ACPI-enabled system.  As such,
> UEFI will handle all pin control configuration, so this driver does not
> provide pin control functions.  It is effectively a GPIO-only driver.

In my experience, you will come back and add pin control to it if
it ever sees any practical power-aware use cases.

For the same reason that Intel is doing it to their pin controllers,
that also run on systems that are ACPI-enabled.

>
> Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This version applied with Björn's review tag.


Yours,
Linus Walleij
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