On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Oleksij Rempel [off-list ref] wrote:

[Me]

quoted

Why is it necessary for the driver to copy one description of
the pin into another?

If i understand it correctly, pinctrl_pin_desc is essential part of
pinmux framework. Theoretically i should define just statical array of
this struct, but by this number of pins and functions it hard to keep it
readable and error free. So i decided to create asm9260_mux_table which
contains every thing i need. The side effect is higher memory usage
since i need to create pinctrl_pin_desc on fly.

May be i miss some thing?

I don't see how having code copying data from one data container
to another makes things "more readable and error free". Go for *one*
static definition. Also the memory waste is a total no-no.

Yours,
Linus Walleij