Re: [PATCH 03/12] pinctrl: sunxi: add driver for Allwinner V853.

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andras Szemzo <szemzo.andras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > The V853 family has multiple package variants, from BGA to QFN88.
> > The latter has co-packaged DRAM and fewer pins, and less features (pin muxes).
> > All family members can be supported by a single driver, as the available pins
> > with allowed muxes is the same across the devices.
>
> It depends a bit on the outcome of the discussion on the A523 pinctrl
> driver [1], but I think we should use the same approach here (and for
> every "new" Allwinner SoC coming up, really): put the pinmux value in the
> DT, and get rid of this entire table altogether:
> [1]
>
> The SoC specific pinctrl driver would then be very small ([2]), so this
> pinctrl support patch here would actually become much smaller.
>
> Just feel a bit sorry for you having created this table, in a tedious and
> eye-straining exercise - been there, done that ;-)

It's pretty stressful for the pin control maintainer as well.