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From: swarren@wwwdotorg•org (Stephen Warren)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH RFC 2/4] ARM: bcm2835: rename sdhci pin group
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 22:19:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <566A5CD4.7080704@wwwdotorg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <705524977.33360.5a38c754-5911-4377-aa1a-501587b3a337.open-xchange@email.1und1.de>

On 12/05/2015 02:43 AM, Stefan Wahren wrote:
> 
>> Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg•org> hat am 2. Dezember 2015 um 04:42
>> geschrieben:
>>
>>
>> On 11/19/2015 09:06 AM, Stefan Wahren wrote:
>>> The node name of the sdhci pin group doesn't explain it's
>>> real function. So rename it.
>>
>> The real function of this node is not to configure SDHCI pins, but to
>> set pins to alt3, as the current name states. Admittedly it's possible
>> that currently the only pins that need to be set to ALT3 are SDHCI
>> related, but that's incidental.
> 
> Yes, i understand the original intension to assign every pin to the available
> mux functions ( gpio_in, gpio_out, alt* ).
> 
> But 3f37169fb3 ("ARM: bcm2835: dt: Add Raspberry Pi Model B rev2") introduce a

FYI I don't have that yet and git fetch is being very slow right now:-(

> better self-describing pin group naming for I2S. So my idea was to adapt it
> according to sdhci first and go on.

OK. I'd suggest explaining that directly in the commit description then.
The commit description above has a quite different semantic meaning.

> So here is a possible vision for bcm2835-rpi.dtsi
> 
> &gpio {
> 	pinctrl-names = "default";
> 
> 	act_gpio: gpio {
> 		brcm,pins = <6>;
> 		brcm,function = <BCM2835_FSEL_GPIO_OUT>;
> 	};
> 
> 	i2c0_alt0: i2c {
> 		brcm,pins = <0 1>;
> 		brcm,function = <BCM2835_FSEL_ALT0>;
> 	};
> 
> 	i2c1_alt0: i2c {
> 		brcm,pins = <2 3>;
> 		brcm,function = <BCM2835_FSEL_ALT0>;
> 	};
...

OK, I guess that can work; I imagine it would make DT overlays easier by
making the pinctrl setup more fine-grained.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-11  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-19 16:06 [PATCH RFC 0/4] ARM: bcm2835: assign pins to sdhci pinctrl Stefan Wahren
2015-11-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] ARM: bcm2835: remove sdhci pins from GPIO pinctrl Stefan Wahren
2015-12-02  3:40   ` Stephen Warren
2015-12-05  9:12     ` Stefan Wahren
2015-12-11  5:15       ` Stephen Warren
2015-11-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] ARM: bcm2835: rename sdhci pin group Stefan Wahren
2015-12-02  3:42   ` Stephen Warren
2015-12-05  9:43     ` Stefan Wahren
2015-12-11  5:19       ` Stephen Warren [this message]
2015-11-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] ARM: bcm2835: specify card detect pin for RPi B Stefan Wahren
2015-12-02  3:44   ` Stephen Warren
2015-12-02 16:33     ` Stefan Wahren
2015-11-19 16:06 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] ARM: bcm2835: assign pins to sdhci pinctrl Stefan Wahren
2015-12-01 23:03   ` Eric Anholt

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