Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] pinctrl: add Intel BayTrail GPIO/pinctrl support

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On 4/25/2014 6:13 PM, Timur Tabi wrote:
> Westerberg, Mika wrote:
> > If you happen to have pin controller/mux driver that drives that 
> > hardware,
> > I'm sure your pinmux functions gets called.
>
> Actually, I don't think they do.  On a device-tree system, the 
> functions get called automatically by the pinctrl layer when it parses 
> the device tree.  This happens in response to probe, remove, and 
> various power management changes.

I would be interested in understanding what exactly the flow is in that 
situation, so care to educate me?  What does the driver do to trigger 
this and what exactly does happen in response to that?

Rafael

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