Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] pinctrl: add samsung pinctrl and gpiolib driver

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On 22 August 2012 03:08, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/21/2012 05:25 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Thomas Abraham
>> <thomas.abraham@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Add a new device tree enabled pinctrl and gpiolib driver for Samsung
>>> SoC's.
> ...
>>> +  The child node can also optionally specify one or more of the pin
>>> +  configuration that should be applied on all the pins listed in the
>>> +  "samsung,pins" property of the child node. The following pin configuration
>>> +  properties are supported.
>>> +
>>> +  - samsung,pin-pud: Pull up/down configuration.
>>> +  - samsung,pin-drv: Drive strength configuration.
>>> +  - samsung,pin-pud-pdn: Pull up/down configuration in power down mode.
>>> +  - samsung,pin-drv-pdn: Drive strength configuration in power down mode.
>>
>> This looks a bit scary, as it seems to be orthogonal to the pin config
>> interface. I.e. this will be programmed "behind the back" of the
>> pin config system. However as long as the pin config implementation
>> reads back these things from the registers it will work, too.
>>
>> In the U300 and Ux500 I explicitly use pin config hogs to set up
>> the pin configuration, and when we enter a state such as
>> "default" the mux setting and config settings are set from the
>> framework separately.
>
> I know that some HW has a separate set of registers (or fields) for the
> "awake" and "sleep" configuration, and the HW switches between the two
> automatically when sleeping. I have no idea if the Samsung SoCs do this,
> but I think if this were the case, it'd be quite legitimate to define
> both these HW states as separate sets of properties within a single
> pinctrl SW state. So, that might be the explanation here?
>

Hi Stephen,

Yes, Samsung SoC support the "awake" and "sleep" configuration in that
way you described.

Thanks,
Thomas.
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