On Thu, 2014-11-20 at 08:22 -0800, S?ren Brinkmann wrote: > > > Also, I hope all my changes here don't break the current behavior. So, > those 27 driver should still be able to do what they currently do. But I > hope they could migrated over to use the generic bindings only in the > longer term, so that these custom properties disappear. > > > > The pinctrl driver just assembles > > > some data structure that has the information regarding custom properties > > > and the core handles the rest. > > > > Yup, that is nice. What will be really nice if it also handle custom, > > "function", "groups" and "pins" properties. Otherwise most of the drivers > > will not be able to benefit from this. > > Why would you still need those? I don't need them :-). The point was that still majority of the drivers will have custom parsing functions. It would be nice if we could fix that too. I do understand that using custom "pins", "functions"... is something which is deprecated, but if core parsing functions allow passing custom strings for above purposes, in a similar way as your proposal, it will be easier for those drivers to migrate, I believe. Regards, Ivan
