Re: [PATCH 20/32] riscv: Add Kendryte K210 FPIOA pinctrl driver

[Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 9:53 AM Damien Le Moal <Damien.LeMoal@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2020/11/24 17:43, Linus Walleij wrote:

> > Would also be nice if the maintainer could add some comments?
>
> What do you mean ? I do not understand. scripts/get_maintainer.pl indicates that
> you are the maintainer of the pinctrl drivers subsystem.

Sorry I thought we had a RISCV driver already, and we don't
so this is cool.

> Do you mean adding an
> entry to the MAINTAINER file for this driver ? I can do that and put my self as
> maintainer. Or do you mean you would like a comment from Palmer (riscv arch
> maintainer) ?

That would be nice. Whoever will enthusiastically review patches to
this driver and make sure it works and get modernized should ideally
be listed as maintainer. I suggest you list yourself.

The only input I want from the RISCV arch maintainer would
be on this code:

+/*
+ * Most devices on the K210 SoC depend on pin mapping changes to initialize
+ * correctly. So initialize this driver early as part of the post core
+ * initialization.
+ */
+static int __init k210_fpioa_init(void)
+{
+       return platform_driver_register(&k210_fpioa_driver);
+}
+postcore_initcall(k210_fpioa_init);

This is a bit nasty and we do not recommend it. But I will accept it
if the arch maintainer claims it is necessary. What happens if you
just make it initialize at driver level?

Yours,
Linus Walleij