Re: [PATCH RFC] gpio: of: document gpio-init nodes

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:41 PM, Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sometimes it is desirable to define a "safe" configuration for a GPIO in
> the device tree but let the operating system later still make use of
> this pin.
>
> This might for example be useful to initially configure a debug pin that
> is usually unconnected as output to prevent floating until it is used
> later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This makes perfect sense to me, and makes things simple, consistent
and easy to understand for DTS authors.

In my opinion.

But I would like to see some opinion from a DT maintainer, we need to
have some rough consensus on this.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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