[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] mx5: Use default pin initializers

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 22:19:47 CEST 2012


Dear Matt Sealey,

> I'm gonna NACK

You can't, only the custodians can ... you can only disagree and provide your 
opinion, which you did ;-)

> this because most of these pin settings are actually
> the POR defaults anyway (UART1 is
> the example I can easily pick out).
> 
> .. unless someone's setting them up wrong between warn reboots

Which in turn might cause trouble during reboots, so it's better to configure 
them back properly.

> or
> changing a UART into something else
> later in boot.. which is unfathomable.. we don't need to even touch
> the iomux controller to get a working UART
> on MX51, Efika MX or anything.

You don't ... lucky you.

> Why bother touching them?

To avoid cases where broken kernel can't reboot or even cause hardware damage.

[...]

Best regards,
Marek Vasut


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