Re: [PATCH V3] PWM: Add SPEAr PWM chip driver support

[Thierry Reding]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 01:55:29PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 22 October 2012 13:25, Thierry Reding
> <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > We could probably do that in the core. I've had some discussions about
> > this with Lars-Peter (Cc'ed) who also had doubts about how this is
> > currently handled.
> >
> > What you're proposing is different, however. If we put that code in the
> > core it will mean that once the module is unloaded, all PWM devices will
> > be disabled. There is currently code in the core that prevents the chip
> > from being removed if one or more PWM devices are busy. But as explained
> > above, with the current core code this return value isn't useful at all.
> 
> This is what many drivers in pwm framework are doing currently too..
> They disable
> pwm and its clock and then do chip remove.
> 
> Sorry, i didn't get the conclusion completely :(
> Should we keep code suggested by me in core or spear's driver?

I think for now we can keep it in the SPEAr driver. I'll make sure to
refactor it out into the core once I have a good plan on how to solve
this issue properly.

Thierry

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