kernel cycle:
Core:
- The pin control Kconfig entry PINCTRL is now turned into
a menuconfig option. This obviously has the implication of
making the subsystem menu visible in menuconfig. This is
happening because of two things:
- Intel have started to deploy and depend on pin controllers
in a way that is affecting users directly. This happens
on the highly integrated laptop chipsets named after
geographical places: baytrail, broxton, cannonlake,
cedarfork, cherryview, denverton, geminilake, lewisburg,
merrifield, sunrisepoint... It started a while back and
now it is ever more evident that this is crucial
infrastructure for x86 laptops and not an embedded
obscurity anymore. Users need to be aware.
- Pin control expanders on I2C and SPI that are
arch-agnostic. Currently Semtech SX150X and Microchip
MCP28x08 but more are expected. Users will have to be
able to configure these in directly for their set-up.
- Just go and select GPIOLIB now that we made sure that
GPIOLIB is a very vanilla subsystem. Do not depend on
it, if we need it, select it.
- Exposing the pin control subsystem in menuconfig uncovered
a bunch of obscure bugs that are now hopefully fixed,
all more or less pertaining to Blackfin.
- Unified namespace for cross-calls between pin control and
GPIO.
- New support for clock skew/delay generic DT bindings
and generic pin config options for this.
- Minor documentation improvements.
Various:
- The Renesas SH-PFC pin controller has evolved a lot. It seems
Renesas are churning out new SoCs by the minute.
- A bunch of non-critical fixes for the Rockchip driver.
- Improve the use of library functions instead of open coding.
- Support the MCP28018 variant in the MCP28x08 driver.
- Static constifying.
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Merge tag 'pinctrl-v4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl
Pull pin control updates from Linus Walleij:
"This is the bulk of pin control changes for the v4.15 kernel cycle:
Core:
- The pin control Kconfig entry PINCTRL is now turned into a
menuconfig option. This obviously has the implication of making the
subsystem menu visible in menuconfig. This is happening because of
two things:
(a) Intel have started to deploy and depend on pin controllers in
a way that is affecting users directly. This happens on the
highly integrated laptop chipsets named after geographical
places: baytrail, broxton, cannonlake, cedarfork, cherryview,
denverton, geminilake, lewisburg, merrifield, sunrisepoint...
It started a while back and now it is ever more evident that
this is crucial infrastructure for x86 laptops and not an
embedded obscurity anymore. Users need to be aware.
(b) Pin control expanders on I2C and SPI that are arch-agnostic.
Currently Semtech SX150X and Microchip MCP28x08 but more are
expected. Users will have to be able to configure these in
directly for their set-up.
- Just go and select GPIOLIB now that we made sure that GPIOLIB is a
very vanilla subsystem. Do not depend on it, if we need it, select
it.
- Exposing the pin control subsystem in menuconfig uncovered a bunch
of obscure bugs that are now hopefully fixed, all more or less
pertaining to Blackfin.
- Unified namespace for cross-calls between pin control and GPIO.
- New support for clock skew/delay generic DT bindings and generic
pin config options for this.
- Minor documentation improvements.
Various:
- The Renesas SH-PFC pin controller has evolved a lot. It seems
Renesas are churning out new SoCs by the minute.
- A bunch of non-critical fixes for the Rockchip driver.
- Improve the use of library functions instead of open coding.
- Support the MCP28018 variant in the MCP28x08 driver.
- Static constifying"
* tag 'pinctrl-v4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-pinctrl: (91 commits)
pinctrl: gemini: Fix missing pad descriptions
pinctrl: Add some depends on HAS_IOMEM
pinctrl: samsung/s3c24xx: add CONFIG_OF dependency
pinctrl: gemini: Fix GMAC groups
pinctrl: qcom: spmi-gpio: Add pmi8994 gpio support
pinctrl: ti-iodelay: remove redundant unused variable dev
pinctrl: max77620: Use common error handling code in max77620_pinconf_set()
pinctrl: gemini: Implement clock skew/delay config
pinctrl: gemini: Use generic DT parser
pinctrl: Add skew-delay pin config and bindings
pinctrl: armada-37xx: Add edge both type gpio irq support
pinctrl: uniphier: remove eMMC hardware reset pin-mux
pinctrl: rockchip: Add iomux-route switching support for rk3288
pinctrl: intel: Add Intel Cedar Fork PCH pin controller support
pinctrl: intel: Make offset to interrupt status register configurable
pinctrl: sunxi: Enforce the strict mode by default
pinctrl: sunxi: Disable strict mode for old pinctrl drivers
pinctrl: sunxi: Introduce the strict flag
pinctrl: sh-pfc: Save/restore registers for PSCI system suspend
pinctrl: sh-pfc: r8a7796: Use generic IOCTRL register description
...