Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with recent changes

From: Rob Herring
Date: Wed Jun 08 2016 - 16:51:58 EST


On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> We're renaming the 'st,pwm-num-chan' binding to 'st,pwm-num-devs' to
> be more inline with the naming conventions of the subsystem. Where
> we used to treat each line as a channel, the PWM convention is to
> describe them as devices.

That's all linux implementation details and you are breaking
compatibility.

> The second documentation adaption entails adding support for PWM
> capture devices. A new clock is required as well as an IRQ line.
> We're also adding a new property similar to the one described
> above, but for capture channels. Typically, there will be less
> capture channels than PWM-out, since all channels have the latter
> capability, but only some have capture support.

Humm, sounds like all of this should be implied from compatible strings.

>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-st.txt | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-st.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-st.txt
> index 84d2fb8..b09f3a4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-st.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-st.txt
> @@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ Required parameters:
> - pinctrl-0: List of phandles pointing to pin configuration nodes
> for PWM module.
> For Pinctrl properties, please refer to [1].
> -- clock-names: Set to "pwm".
> +- clock-names: Valid entries are "pwm" and/or "capture".
> - clocks: phandle of the clock used by the PWM module.
> For Clk properties, please refer to [2].
> +- interrupts: IRQ for the Capture device
>
> Optional properties:
> -- st,pwm-num-chan: Number of available channels. If not passed, the driver
> - will consider single channel by default.
> +- st,pwm-num-devs: Number of available PWM channels. Default is 0.
> +- st,capture-num-devs: Number of available Capture channels. Default is 0.
>
> [1] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt
> [2] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
> @@ -37,5 +38,6 @@ pwm1: pwm@fe510000 {
> &pinctrl_pwm1_chan3_default>;
> clocks = <&clk_sysin>;
> clock-names = "pwm";
> - st,pwm-num-chan = <4>;
> + st,pwm-num-devs = <4>;
> + st,capture-num-devs = <2>;
> };
> --
> 2.8.3
>