Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] gpio: mvebu: Add limited PWM support

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Mon Apr 24 2017 - 05:18:41 EST


On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 5:40 PM, Ralph Sennhauser
<ralph.sennhauser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
>
> Armada 370/XP devices can 'blink' GPIO lines with a configurable on
> and off period. This can be modelled as a PWM.
>
> However, there are only two sets of PWM configuration registers for
> all the GPIO lines. This driver simply allows a single GPIO line per
> GPIO chip of 32 lines to be used as a PWM. Attempts to use more return
> EBUSY.
>
> Due to the interleaving of registers it is not simple to separate the
> PWM driver from the GPIO driver. Thus the GPIO driver has been
> extended with a PWM driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> URL: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/427287/
> URL: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/427295/
> [Ralph Sennhauser:
> * Port forward
> * Merge PWM portion into gpio-mvebu.c
> * Switch to atomic PWM API
> * Add new compatible string marvell,armada-370-xp-gpio
> * Update and merge documentation patch
> * Update MAINTAINERS]
> Signed-off-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij