Re: [PATCH RFC/RFT] pinctrl: qcom: make the pinmuxing strict

[Linus Walleij]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 10:26 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Yeah, I would be surprised if nothing broke.It's probably worth
> looking into the implementation of the strict flag as it makes every
> muxed pin unavailable as GPIO even if - like in this case - the
> function *is* "gpio". Of course the "gpio" string has no real meaning
> to the pinctrl core, it's just a name but it would be awesome if we
> could say for a given function that this means GPIO and as such should
> be available to the GPIOLIB API.

Can't we just add a special callback to the pinmux_ops for that?
like

int (*is_gpio_mode) (struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev, unsigned int pin);

That the core code can call to ask the driver if a pin is in GPIO
mode already? A simple strcmp("gpio", ...) is one way for the
Qualcomm driver to implement that.

Yours,
Linus Walleij