Re: [PATCH v5 01/10] pinctrl: generic: Add bi-directional and output-enable

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon May 08 2017 - 12:08:41 EST


On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 7:01 PM, jmondi <jacopo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2017 at 09:52:49AM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Andy Shevchenko
>> <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > Linus, for me it looks like better to revert that change, until we
>> > will have clear picture why existing configuration parameters can't
>> > work.
>>
>> Yeah I'll revert the binding for fixes.

> As it seems we won't be able to proceed with the currently proposed solution,
> would that be acceptable now that we use the "pinmux" property to add
> flags as BIDIR

Can you explain what does this *electrically* mean?
Second question, what makes it differ to what already exists?

> and SWIO_[INPUT|OUTPUT] directly there?

Ditto.

> This was my original proposal, rejected because we were using the "pins"
> property at the time.


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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko