* Linus Walleij [off-list ref] [170111 07:34]:

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Tony Lindgren [off-list ref] wrote:

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Below is an experimental fix to intorduce pinctrl_start() that I've
tested with pinctrl-single. Then we should probably make all pin controller
drivers call pinctrl_start() to properly fix the issue of struct pinctrl_dev
handle not being initialized before driver functions are called.

Hm I guess that could work, but can we keep pinctrl_register() with the old
semantics and add a separate pinctrl_register_and_defer()
for those who just wanna start it later by a separate call?

Then we don't need any special flags.

OK I'll take a look.

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Or do you guys have any better ideas?

Not really. So you mean revert the previous patch and apply something
like this instead?

Let me first take a look to see if we can fix it by making drivers using
GENERIC_PINCTRL_GROUPS or GENERIC_PINMUX_FUNCTIONS register with
pinctrl_register_and_defer(). I'll post a patch for that today.

Then maybe for v4.12 we can attempt to move all pin controller drivers
to using it so we can fix the problem for good.

Regards,

Tony