Re: [PATCH 1/2] pwm: Add __weak attributed functions for pwm operations

From: Mohan Pallaka
Date: Tue May 17 2011 - 00:43:49 EST


On 5/15/2011 4:28 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 01:00:31AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 06:13:21PM +0530, Mohan Pallaka wrote:
For chip drivers that support both pwm and non-pwm modes
would encounter compilation errors if the platform doesn't
have support for pwm though the chip is programmed to work
in non-pwm mode. Add __weak attributed pwm functions to avoid
compilation issues in these scenarios.

Russell,

You seem to have authored pwm.h, do you have any objections to this
change?
This seems to be a recipe for an oops. Have a look at how
linux/regulator/consumer.h deals with this kind of problem, and notice
that we have CONFIG_HAVE_PWM to indicate whether this interface is
supported or not.
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll upload a new patch.

--Mohan.
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