Re: [PATCH 7/9] pinctrl: samsung: Add property to mark pad state as suitable for power down

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 11:30:57AM +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote:

>> Separate sleep state is needed because of the pin control bindings and
>> design.
>>
>> A separate sleep state is required to let pin control client driver (in this
>> case
>> Exynos I2S driver) let to choose when it is okay to switch pads into sleep
>> state and I see no other way to achieve this.
>
> Maybe the pinctrl API should be extended for this? Doing this in DTS
> just for purpose of passing information between drivers (consumer and
> provider) looks odd.

I don't understand what is going on but you are all smart people so I
guess you're right :)

Tell me if I can help clarifying something...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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