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Re: [PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional

From Leo Li <pku.leo@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional
Date 2016-09-12 18:50 +0200
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On Fri, Sep 9, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:34:31PM -0700, Stefan Agner wrote:
>> Yeah it is a bit a wording thing: In my understanding, pinctrl is
>> required on SoC's witch have a pin controller... It is just that the
>> driver does not need to get the pinctrl by itself because the stack is
>> taking care of it implicitly. And yes, that makes the particular example
>> not a real world example.
>
> At first I thought, too, that it's a fatal problem if getting the
> pinctrl stuff fails. IMHO that shows that the comments (or the code) are
> still not good enough.

Ya.  If it has confused more than one people, it is likely to confuse
more.  I agree with you that we should make it more clear.

Thanks,
Leo

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Re: [PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> - 2016-09-09 19:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional Leo Li <pku.leo@gmail.com> - 2016-09-09 21:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch> - 2016-09-09 22:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional Uwe Kleine-König          <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> - 2016-09-09 23:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional Leo Li <pku.leo@gmail.com> - 2016-09-12 18:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional Lothar Waßmann <LW@KARO-electronics.de> - 2016-09-12 10:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v5] i2c: imx: make bus recovery through pinctrl optional Leo Li <pku.leo@gmail.com> - 2016-09-12 18:30 +0200

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