Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: Fix the clean up on pinconf_apply_setting failure

[Mukesh Ojha <mukesh.ojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 9:40 PM Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Mukesh,
>
> thanks for your patch!
>
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2024 at 9:45 AM Mukesh Ojha
> <mukesh.ojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > When some client does devm_pinctrl_get() followed by
> > pinctrl_select_state() that does pinmux first successfully and later
> > during config setting it sets the wrong drive strenght to the pin due to
> > which pinconf_apply_setting fails. Currently, on failure during config
> > setting is implemented as if pinmux has failed for one of the pin but
> > that does not seem right and need to undo the pinmux for all the pin if
> > config setting fails.
> >
> > Current commit does a bit refactor to reuse the code and tries to clean
> > up mux setting on config setting failure.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mukesh.ojha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hats off, it's a real nice patch. I bet these are design flaws from
> my initial implementation ~13 years ago.
>
> I have applied it for -next (v6.14) while we test it in linux-next and
> think about if we should even back-port this to stable.

Thanks, Let me know if you want me to send another version with tagging
it stable and Fixes tag.

-Mukesh

>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij