From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759532Ab2D0ILd (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:11:33 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:45176 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756968Ab2D0IL3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 04:11:29 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:11:22 +0800 From: Shawn Guo To: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Cc: Dong Aisheng , b20223@freescale.com, linus.walleij@stericsson.com, devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rob.herring@calxeda.com, kernel@pengutronix.de, cjb@laptop.org, s.hauer@pengutronix.de, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] pinctrl: pinctrl-imx: add imx pinctrl core driver Message-ID: <20120427081120.GT2234@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> References: <1335451227-27709-1-git-send-email-b29396@freescale.com> <1335451227-27709-2-git-send-email-b29396@freescale.com> <20120426144446.GN9142@game.jcrosoft.org> <20120426151536.GO9142@game.jcrosoft.org> <20120427054842.GJ2234@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> <20120427062816.GQ9142@game.jcrosoft.org> <20120427072503.GP2234@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net> <20120427071104.GS9142@game.jcrosoft.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120427071104.GS9142@game.jcrosoft.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 09:11:04AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > except duplicate bindings instead having common one make no sense either > > so imx, at91 and ST (STB SoC and other does have the same type of pin IP > > to not come with a common bindig means we are doint the same crap as before > > with switch to DT > It can be every different in hardware details from one pin based controller to another. mxs pinctrl is another pin based IP, and Dong tried to approach a binding working good for both imx and mxs, but in the end we agree imx binding does not work so good for mxs, and vice versa. And that's why pinctrl core binding design leaves out the platform specific binding. -- Regards, Shawn