Hi Jorik,

On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 02:09:32PM +0200, Jorik Jonker wrote:

On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:04:25AM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:

quoted

Unfortunately, these pins can be used for other purposes as well, so
we cannot make force that decision down to our users.

Yes, but since the associated peripheral is disabled, the users are free to
configure other functions/peripherals, right? I mean something like this in
pseudo-DT:

/soc/pio: pinctrl at 01c20800/uart1_pins:
  allwinner,pins = "PG6, PG7";
/soc/pio: pinctrl at 01c20800/foo0_pins:
  allwinner,pins = "PG6, PG7";
  ..
/soc/uart1: serial at serial@01c28400:
  pinctrl-0 = <&uart1_pins>;
  status = "disabled";
/soc/bar:
  pinctrl-0 = <&uart1_pins>;
  status = "disabled";

Assuming Linux/DT allows this, this would force nothing, only offer choice
and ease of use.

Hmm, sorry, I went over your patches too quickly...

That's a great compromise I think. Chen-Yu, any opinion on this?

Thanks,
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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