Hi Linus,
On Tue, 2014-12-02 at 04:01PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Soren Brinkmann
> <soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com> wrote:
>
> > With the new 'groups' property, the DT parser can infer the map type
> > from the fact whether 'pins' or 'groups' is used to specify the pin
> > group to work on.
> > To maintain backwards compatibitliy with current usage of the DT
> > binding, this is only done when an invalid map type is passed to the
> > parsing function.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Soren Brinkmann <soren.brinkmann at xilinx.com>
> > Tested-by: Andreas F?rber <afaerber at suse.de>
> > ---
> > Changes since RFC v2:
> > - none
>
> OK there are problems with this.
>
> > @@ -264,6 +264,7 @@ int pinconf_generic_dt_subnode_to_map(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
> > unsigned reserve;
> > struct property *prop;
> > const char *group;
> > + const char *dt_pin_specifier = "pins";
>
> Something called "dt_pin_specifier" contains the string "pins"...
>
> >
> > ret = of_property_read_string(np, "function", &function);
> > if (ret < 0) {
> > @@ -284,10 +285,20 @@ int pinconf_generic_dt_subnode_to_map(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev,
> > reserve++;
> > if (num_configs)
> > reserve++;
> > +
> > ret = of_property_count_strings(np, "pins");
> > if (ret < 0) {
> > - dev_err(dev, "could not parse property pins\n");
> > - goto exit;
> > + ret = of_property_count_strings(np, "groups");
> > + if (ret < 0) {
> > + dev_err(dev, "could not parse property pins/groups\n");
> > + goto exit;
> > + }
> > + if (type == PIN_MAP_TYPE_INVALID)
> > + type = PIN_MAP_TYPE_CONFIGS_GROUP;
> > + dt_pin_specifier = "groups";
>
> Then suddenly "groups".
>
> The pointer variable should be named something like "subnode_target_type"
> or so.
I will rename it accordingly in the next version.
>
> > +++ b/include/linux/pinctrl/pinconf-generic.h
> > @@ -174,6 +174,13 @@ static inline int pinconf_generic_dt_node_to_map_pin(
> > PIN_MAP_TYPE_CONFIGS_PIN);
> > }
> >
> > +static inline int pinconf_generic_dt_node_to_map_all(
> > + struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, struct device_node *np_config,
> > + struct pinctrl_map **map, unsigned *num_maps)
> > +{
> > + return pinconf_generic_dt_node_to_map(pctldev, np_config, map, num_maps,
> > + PIN_MAP_TYPE_INVALID);
> > +}
>
> First add some comment describing what happens here and why
> INVALID is specified.
>
> Then what does this have to do with the $subject?
>
> Atleast mention in the commit text that a new helper is added, though unused.
Ok. I'll put a comment in the header and one or two sentences regarding
this helper in the commit message.
Thanks,
S?ren
