From: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
To: Khristine Andreea Barbulescu <khristineandreea.barbulescu@oss.nxp.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 03/10] arm64: dts: s32g: change pinctrl node into the new mfd node
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:13:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD++jLkJCoSWM+cy2OTyF9BigRcP-4iF1oGxGzEX8_53YWhArg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260120115923.3463866-4-khristineandreea.barbulescu@oss.nxp.com>
Hi Khristine,
On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 12:59 PM Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
<khristineandreea.barbulescu@oss.nxp.com> wrote:
> From: Andrei Stefanescu <andrei.stefanescu@oss.nxp.com>
>
> This commit will switch to the new mfd node for representing the SIUL2
> hardware. The old pinctrl binding for SIUL2 will be deprecated in a
> later commit since it doesn't correctly represent the hardware.
>
> SIUL2 is now represented as an mfd device. Move the pinctrl related
> properties inside the new "nxp-siul2" node. The latter one is now used
> to represent the mfd device.
>
> This change came as a result of upstream review in the following series:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-gpio/a924bbb6-96ec-40be-9d82-a76b2ab73afd@oss.nxp.com/
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240926143122.1385658-3-andrei.stefanescu@oss.nxp.com/
>
> The SIUL2 module has multiple capabilities. It has support for reading
> SoC information, pinctrl and GPIO. All of this functionality is part of
> the same register space. The initial pinctrl driver treated the pinctrl
> functionality as separate from the GPIO one. However, they do rely on
> common registers and a long, detailed and specific register range list
> would be required for pinctrl&GPIO (carving out the necessary memory
> for each function). Moreover, in some cases this wouldn't be enough. For
> example reading a GPIO's direction would require a read of the MSCR
> register corresponding to that pin. This would not be possible in the
> GPIO driver because all of the MSCR registers are referenced by the
> pinctrl driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrei Stefanescu <andrei.stefanescu@oss.nxp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Khristine Andreea Barbulescu <khristineandreea.barbulescu@oss.nxp.com>
OK this makes sense.
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linusw@kernel.org>
Yours,
Linus Walleij
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-27 9:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-20 11:59 [PATCH v8 00/10] gpio: siul2-s32g2: add initial GPIO driver Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-20 11:59 ` [PATCH v8 01/10] dt-bindings: mfd: add support for the NXP SIUL2 module Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-21 2:19 ` Rob Herring
2026-02-19 11:36 ` Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-02-20 10:16 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-02-20 14:36 ` Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-02-20 14:41 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-02-23 11:51 ` Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-02-23 13:14 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-02-25 9:40 ` Ghennadi Procopciuc
2026-03-03 13:28 ` Ghennadi Procopciuc
2026-03-13 17:10 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-03-14 7:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-03-23 7:57 ` Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-03-23 8:07 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-03-31 7:48 ` Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-03-31 10:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-03-31 13:43 ` Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-03-31 14:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-03-23 15:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-02-20 10:18 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2026-02-20 14:14 ` Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-20 11:59 ` [PATCH v8 02/10] mfd: nxp-siul2: add support for NXP SIUL2 Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-22 18:52 ` Sander Vanheule
2026-01-20 11:59 ` [PATCH v8 03/10] arm64: dts: s32g: change pinctrl node into the new mfd node Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-27 9:13 ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2026-01-20 11:59 ` [PATCH v8 04/10] pinctrl: s32cc: use dev_err_probe() and improve error messages Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-20 12:04 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2026-01-20 11:59 ` [PATCH v8 05/10] pinctrl: s32cc: change to "devm_pinctrl_register_and_init" Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-20 12:04 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2026-01-20 11:59 ` [PATCH v8 06/10] pinctrl: s32g2: change the driver to also be probed as an MFD cell Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-20 12:08 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2026-01-23 13:57 ` Vincent Guittot
2026-01-20 11:59 ` [PATCH v8 07/10] pinctrl: s32cc: skip syscon child nodes when parsing funcs and groups Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-20 12:16 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2026-01-27 9:14 ` Linus Walleij
2026-01-20 11:59 ` [PATCH v8 08/10] pinctrl: s32cc: implement GPIO functionality Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-23 13:56 ` Vincent Guittot
2026-01-20 11:59 ` [PATCH v8 09/10] MAINTAINERS: add MAINTAINER for NXP SIUL2 MFD driver Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-27 9:17 ` Linus Walleij
2026-01-20 11:59 ` [PATCH v8 10/10] pinctrl: s32cc: set num_custom_params to 0 Khristine Andreea Barbulescu
2026-01-20 12:16 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2026-01-20 13:45 ` Daniel Baluta
2026-01-20 19:49 ` [PATCH v8 00/10] gpio: siul2-s32g2: add initial GPIO driver Rob Herring
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