RE: [PATCH] mfd: palmas: Add DVFS mux setting

[Andrew Chew]

> On 07/27/2013 03:55 AM, Laxman Dewangan wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 July 2013 03:42 AM, Andrew Chew wrote:
> >> I wrote:
> >>> Andrew wrote:
> >>>> [adding a third pinmux configuration property to Palmas's DT]
> >>>
> >>> How does this interact with the pinctrl driver that Laxman just sent
> >>> for Palmas?
> >>>
> >>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/26/141
> >>> [PATCH 0/2] pinctrl: palmas: add pincontrol driver
> ..
> >> Abandoning this patch.
> ...
> > once we will have the pincontrol driver then mux pads are become
> redundant.
> 
> OK. The driver should probably operate like this then:
> 
> * During probe(), parse the ti,mux-pad* parameters, if present, and apply
> them. This is needed to maintain compatibility with old DTs that may contain
> these properties.
> 
> * At the end of probe(), register the pinctrl driver. If standard pinctrl
> properties are present in DT, these will then be applied. These may override
> the values set by any ti,mux-pad* properties if they were present.
> 
> Also, we should remove, or mark deprecated, the ti,mux-pad* properties in
> the binding document when adding pinctrl support.

Sounds reasonable to me.  The fate of my patch hasn't really been discussed, though.
Can we apply it, to make the ti,mux-pad* stuff complete?
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