[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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