On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
[off-list ref] wrote:

The question I'm asking myself is: are these settings related to pin
configuration (i.e. depending on the use of the pin, and several settings
are valid, depending on the use case), or are they related to pinmux
(i.e. defined by the function)?

If they are intrinsic to the function, i.e. whenever someone wants to use
that function they need to do this (nb the Documentation/pinctrl.txt
definition of "function", nothing else) then this should IMO not be in
the device tree at all, but hard-coded in the driver.

E.g. if someone needs to use a function such as "i2c0", on whatever
pins, then it should just be set up by the driver, no DT involved. It is a
hardware pecularity, drivers drive hardware so...

If however it depends on which pins it is used with, then it is pin
configuration and should use a DT property.

Yours,
Linus Walleij