Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] pinctrl: Intel Cherryview/Braswell support

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Tue Nov 04 2014 - 17:56:47 EST


On 11/04/2014 05:13 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
Well, first of all, you won't use phandles with ACPI.:-)

Yes, which makes things complicated for me. The pinctrl binding makes heavy use of phandles, so it will be a challenge to come up with a substitue.

That seems to be the case in which some ACPI-specific code would need to be
written. In ACPI, instead of the list of phandles you'll have a list of
references to device objects that you can walk in an analogous way.

Can you point me to an example Linux driver that parses references?

> I'm
not sure how much of that code can be shared between DT and ACPI ATM, but
it looks like at least some of it can be shared.

So ACPI does not support the concept if variable length properties?

And it looks like we'll need a device_property_read_string_index().:-)

Multi-string properties are also very popular in device tree.


BTW, where's the pinctrl binding documented?

Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt

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