CC Timur, LinusW, gpio
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Chris Brandt <Chris.Brandt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just FYI,
>
> After pulling Geert's new renesas-drivers-2017-08-29-v4.13-rc7, I tried
> testing RZ/A1 and it hangs during boot.
>
> Basically...
>
> [ 110.329579] pinctrl-rza1 fcfe3000.pin-controller: Parsed gpiochip gpio-0-0 with 6 pins
> [ 112.970056] pinctrl-rza1 fcfe3000.pin-controller: Parsed gpiochip gpio-1-1 with 16 pins
> (hangs here forever)
>
>
> After some debug, I found that this commit broke the new
> drivers/pinctrl/pinctrl-rza1.c driver.
>
> 108d23e322a2 ("gpiolib: request the gpio before querying its direction")
>
> Looks like it was added for -rc5.
>
> If I revert that one patch, RZ/A1 boots fine.
>
> Since we're at -rc7, I probably won't have time to fix it before the
> release.
It's not in v4.13-rc5, only in -next, for v4.14.
So v4.13 will be fine, and we still have plenty of time to fix the issue.
> Poor RZ/A1 pinctrl driver...it took so long to get into mainline, and
> then it only worked for 1 release.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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