This series first converts the debugfs files in the pinctrl subsystem to octal permissions and then adds a new debug file "pinmux-select". Add function name and group name can be written to "pinmux-select" which will cause the function and group to be activated on the pin controller. Notes for PATCH v3: - add Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko to the "pinctrl: use to octal permissions for debugfs files" patch - change the octal permissions from 0400 to 0444 to correctly match the symbolic permissions (thanks to Joe Perches and Geert Uytterhoeven) - note that S_IFREG flag is added to the mode in __debugfs_create_file() (thanks to Andy for highlighting this and Joe for suggesting I should add a note to the commit message) - fix order of the goto labels so that the buffers are freed correctly as suggested by Dan Carpenter - move from devm_kzalloc() to kzalloc() as the buffers are only used inside the pinmux_select() function and not related to the lifetime of the pin controller device (thanks to Andy for pointing this out) - correct the pinmux-select example in commit message to use the function and group name instead of selector (thanks to Geert) Notes for PATCH v2: - create patch series that includes patch to switch all the debugfs files in pinctrl subsystem over to octal permission - write function name and group name, instead of error-prone selector numbers, to the 'pinmux-select' file - switch from static to dynamic allocation for the kernel buffer filled by strncpy_from_user() - look up function selector from function name using pinmux_func_name_to_selector() - validate group name with get_function_groups() and match_string() - look up selector for group name with pinctrl_get_group_selector() Notes for PATCH v1: - posted seperate patch to switch all the debugfs files in pinctrl subsystem over to octal permission [1] - there is no existing documentation for any of the debugfs enteries for pinctrl, so it seemed to have a bigger scope than just this patch. I also noticed that rst documentation is confusingly named "pinctl" (no 'r') and started thread about that [2]. Linus suggested chaning that to 'pin-control'. Thus I am planning a seperate documentation patch series where the file is renamed, references changed and a section on the pinctrl debugfs files is added. Notes for RFC v2 [3]: - rename debugfs file "pinmux-set" to "pinmux-select" - renmae pinmux_set_write() to pinmux_select() - switch from memdup_user_nul() to strncpy_from_user() - switch from pr_warn() to dev_err() [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/20210126044742.87602-1-drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/20210126050817.GA187797@x1/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/20210123064909.466225-1-drew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Drew Fustini (2): pinctrl: use to octal permissions for debugfs files pinctrl: pinmux: Add pinmux-select debugfs file drivers/pinctrl/core.c | 6 +-- drivers/pinctrl/pinconf.c | 4 +- drivers/pinctrl/pinmux.c | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 3 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 2.25.1