On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Shawn Guo shawn.guo@freescale.com wrote:
[Stephen]
I've started to look at porting the Tegra pinmux driver to your pinctrl subsystem. In order to replace the existing pinmux driver, I need a way to support configuring options such as tri-state, pull-up/down, drive- strength, etc.
I'm also concerned about this. The current pinctrl subsystem only implements pinmux. Before pin/pad configuration (pincfg) support is available, I can not really convert imx iomuxc driver (iomux-v3) over to use the subsystem.
I have the same problem for drivers/gpio/gpio-nomadik. which does all weird kind of stuff. So you're not alone.
The reason why this is not in the subsystem as of today is that we cannot push hundreds of kilobytes of upfront design with no drivers using it, the current patch set in for-next is big enough as it is right now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Design_Up_Front
But we can start thinking about the next step, so lets design the generic pin control stuff we need and merge it to -next early so we can work on it next kernel cycle.
Yours, Linus Walleij