Hi Jean-Christophe, On Friday 17 of May 2013 14:26:25 Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > On 18:22 Wed 15 May , Stephen Warren wrote: > > On 05/15/2013 06:13 PM, Tomasz Figa wrote: > > > On Wednesday 15 of May 2013 16:55:37 Doug Anderson wrote: > > >> Tomasz / Linus, > > >> > > >> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Tomasz Figa > > >> <tomasz.figa@xxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > wrote: > > >>> Yes. I don't like the current way too much either, duplication > > >>> being > > >>> one of the reasons. > > >> > > >> Do you have any other ideas? It sounds like Linus didn't like my > > >> suggestion and makes some good points... > > > > > > I don't have anything interesting at the moment. It's a bit late now > > > here (2 AM), so I'm going to get some sleep first. > > > > > > Also after reading Stephen's reply, I'm wondering if hogging > > > wouldn't > > > solve the problem indeed. (It might have to be fixed on > > > pinctrl-samsung > > > first, as last time I tried to use it, it caused some errors from > > > pinctrl core, but haven't time to track them down, as it wasn't > > > anything important at that time). > > > > One issue I noticed with the DT fragments earlier in this thread. It > > looks like hogs in the Samsung pinctrl bingings end up looking like: > > > > pinctrl { > > > > pina { > > > > samsung,pins = <PIN_A PIN_B PIN_C>; > > samsung,pin-function = <0xf>; > > samsung,pin-pud = <0>; > > ... > > I have a huge issue here that we had on at91 too > > we are going to have a huge numbet of node > > and on at91 we handle the pin the same way as samsung > and ST have also a similiar IP > > so I'll prefer to reuse the AT91 DT bindings > > as said by Linus I just push a cleanup of the magic by using Macro > which make it really readable now > > some extract of the sama5 pinctrl > > mmc0 { > pinctrl_mmc0_clk_cmd_dat0: mmc0_clk_cmd_dat0 { > atmel,pins = > <AT91_PIOD 9 AT91_PERIPH_A AT91_PINCTRL_NONE /* PD9 periph A MCI0_CK > */ AT91_PIOD 0 AT91_PERIPH_A AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP /* PD0 periph A > MCI0_CDA with pullup */ AT91_PIOD 1 AT91_PERIPH_A > AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP>; /* PD1 periph A MCI0_DA0 with pullup */ }; > pinctrl_mmc0_dat1_3: mmc0_dat1_3 { > atmel,pins = > <AT91_PIOD 2 AT91_PERIPH_A AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP /* PD2 periph A > MCI0_DA1 with pullup */ AT91_PIOD 3 AT91_PERIPH_A > AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP /* PD3 periph A MCI0_DA2 with pullup */ AT91_PIOD > 4 AT91_PERIPH_A AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP>; /* PD4 periph A MCI0_DA3 with > pullup */ }; > pinctrl_mmc0_dat4_7: mmc0_dat4_7 { > atmel,pins = > <AT91_PIOD 5 AT91_PERIPH_A AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP /* PD5 periph A > MCI0_DA4 with pullup, conflicts with TIOA0, PWMH2 */ AT91_PIOD 6 > AT91_PERIPH_A AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP /* PD6 periph A MCI0_DA5 with > pullup, conflicts with TIOB0, PWML2 */ AT91_PIOD 7 AT91_PERIPH_A > AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP /* PD7 periph A MCI0_DA6 with pullup, conlicts > with TCLK0, PWMH3 */ AT91_PIOD 8 AT91_PERIPH_A > AT91_PINCTRL_PULL_UP>; /* PD8 periph A MCI0_DA7 with pullup, conflicts > with PWML3 */ }; > }; > > of sam9g45 > > i2c_gpio2 { > pinctrl_i2c_gpio2: i2c_gpio2-0 { > atmel,pins = > <AT91_PIOB 4 AT91_PERIPH_GPIO AT91_PINCTRL_MULTI_DRIVE /* PB4 gpio > multidrive I2C2 data */ AT91_PIOB 5 AT91_PERIPH_GPIO > AT91_PINCTRL_MULTI_DRIVE>; /* PB5 gpio multidrive I2C2 clock */ }; > }; > > so we could share the c code too I'd have a question with regard to AT91 bindings. Using Samsung bindings we don't need to specify all configuration options for a pin, only those that are relevant for the platform. Do your bindings allow this? Apparently AT91 has less configurable things and those available are usually always configured together so it's not a problem. But on our SoCs we have a bit more of them: - function (input, output, special functions) - pull-down/-up - driver strength - power down mode function (input, output low, output high, retention) - power down mode pull-down/-up - one could argue that default output value could be set this way as well, by adding samsung,pin-value property. Best regards, Tomasz > Best Regards, > J, > > > }; > > pinp { > > > > samsung,pins = <PIN_P PIN_Q>; > > samsung,pin-function = <0xe>; > > samsung,pin-pud = <1>; > > ... > > > > }; > > pinx { > > > > samsung,pins = <PIN_X PIN_Y PIN_Z>; > > samsung,pin-function = <0xd>; > > samsung,pin-pud = <2>; > > ... > > > > }; > > > > pinctrl-names = "default"; > > pinctrl-0 = <&pina &pinp &pinx>; > > > > }; > > > > That pinctrl-0 property could get rather large (hard to > > write/maintain, > > unwieldy) if it needs to set up lots of different configurations. > > That's why I made the equivalent Tegra bindings be: > > > > pinctrl { > > > > pins_default { > > > > pina { > > > > samsung,pins = <PIN_A PIN_B PIN_C>; > > samsung,pin-function = <0xf>; > > samsung,pin-pud = <0>; > > ... > > > > }; > > pinp { > > > > samsung,pins = <PIN_P PIN_Q>; > > samsung,pin-function = <0xe>; > > samsung,pin-pud = <1>; > > ... > > > > }; > > pinx { > > > > samsung,pins = <PIN_X PIN_Y PIN_Z>; > > samsung,pin-function = <0xd>; > > samsung,pin-pud = <2>; > > ... > > > > }; > > > > }; > > > > pinctrl-names = "default"; > > pinctrl-0 = <&pins_default>; > > > > }; > > > > The extra level within the "pinctrl configuration node" > > ("pins_default" > > here) makes the pinctrl-0 property a lot easier to write, and the > > advantage happens at every use-site that needs to configure different > > subsets of the relevant pins in different ways. > > > > If you're changing all the bindings anyway, introducing this extra > > level might be something to think about. > > > > I did try to explain my philosophy here when we all got together to > > design the pinctrl bindings, but I obviously didn't explain it well > > enough, or people didn't like it anyway. > > _______________________________________________ > > devicetree-discuss mailing list > > devicetree-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/devicetree-discuss -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-samsung-soc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html