Re: [PATCH v2] leds: leds-gpio: adopt pinctrl support

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On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In the pure GPIO pins only case it could be all done in the GPIO controller,
> but it's probably best to have the pins muxed by the drivers using them.

Yes, that's an easier way to say the long unreadable thing I just
posted ...

> Some drivers doing runtime PM may need to dynamically toggle the pins
> for idle mode to stop leakage, enable wakeup events for rx pins etc.
> Probably no need for that in the gpio leds case, but it would be confusing
> to have some pins claimed by the GPIO driver and some by the drivers
> using the pins.

True. drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c provides a simple example.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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