Re: [PATCH 3/3] pinctrl: Don't create a device for each pin controller

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 07:52:44 EST


On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Pin controllers should already be instantiated as a device, so there's
> no need for the pinctrl core to create a new struct device for each
> controller.
>
> This allows the controller's real name to be used in the mux mapping
> table, rather than e.g. "pinctrl.0", "pinctrl.1", etc.

Hey cool, this "just works" on U300!

And it is what we want for future device tree work I highly suspect.

I'll push the change to linux-next!

Thanks,
Linus Walleij
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/