On 09/22/2017 06:03 AM, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 3:04 AM, Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Some platforms (e.g: Broadcom STB: BMIPS_GENERIC/ARCH_BRCMSTB) will lose >> their register contents when entering their lower power state. In such a >> case, the pinctrl-single driver that is used will not be able to restore >> the power states without telling the core about it and having >> pinctrl_select_state() check for that. >> >> This patch adds a new optional boolean property that Device Tree can >> define in order to obtain exactly that and having the core pinctrl code >> take that into account. >> >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <[email protected]> > > If we use this per-controller approach rather than the per-state approach > I discuss in reply to patch 1/2, we should probably make it a generic > property for pin controllers and not just a pinctrl-single business.
I suppose it makes sense to make this a generic pinctrl property then. drivers/pinctrl/core.c does not appear to be trying to fetch any properties for a pinctrl device, but that is probably not too hard to add. > > So patch pinctrl-bindings.txt and put the code somewhere in > core. > > But that is more of a detail, first we need to figure out how to > handle this business in general. Fair enough. -- Florian
