On Friday, May 12, 2017, linux-renesas-soc-owner@vger.kernel.org wrote:

As you say this is actually fixing hardware bugs, we can expect these
quirky tables to be gone in the next hardware generation, right?

I see this particular pin controller as a one shot deal. For the next
part in this series we are moving to a completely different controller
which you could probably get away with simply using pinctrl-single.

Then the right place for it is in the quirky driver for the quirky
first-generation
hardware.

Maybe to be more clear, I would say the design is not a 'bug', but
rather an under sight of the original designers where are they stared
to need pins that would be both in and out, they started tacking on
more hardware.


Chris