On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 4:01 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Fan Wu <[email protected]> > > The patch added params in disable_setting to differ the two possible usage, > 1.Only want to disable the pin setting in SW aspect, param can be set to "0" > 2.Want to disable the pin setting in both HW and SW aspect, param can be set > to "1"; > > The reason why to do this is that: > To avoid duplicated enable_setting operation without disabling operation > which will > let Pin's desc->mux_usecount keep being added. > > In the following case, the issue can be reproduced: > 1)There is a driver need to switch Pin state dynamicly, E.g. b/t "sleep" and > "default" state > 2)The Pin setting configuration in the two state is same, like the following > one: > component a { > pinctrl-names = "default", "sleep"; > pinctrl-0 = <&a_grp_setting &c_grp_setting>; > pinctrl-1 = <&b_grp_setting &c_grp_setting>; > } > The "c_grp_setting" config node is totaly same, maybe like following one:
Hm this is a quite interesting thing if we can get it in place, but I need Stephen's consent, also Tony should have a look at this as I know he's had the same problem as you in pinctrl-single. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

