Re: [PATCH 2/4] pwm: atmel: add support for controllers with 32 bit counters

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Tue Feb 19 2019 - 04:15:34 EST


On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 08:57:04AM +0000, Claudiu.Beznea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> On 19.02.2019 09:42, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Hello Claudiu,
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:30:53PM +0000, Claudiu.Beznea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> From: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> New SAM9X60's PWM controller use 32 bits counters thus it could generate
> >> signals with higher period and duty cycles. Update the current driver
> >> to work with old controller (that uses 16 bits counters) and with the
> >> new SAM9X60's controller.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> >> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
> >> index 7e86a5266eb6..44f4a1c9f60b 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
> >> @@ -48,15 +48,15 @@
> >> #define PWMV2_CPRD 0x0C
> >> #define PWMV2_CPRDUPD 0x10
> >>
> >> -/*
> >> - * Max value for duty and period
> >> - *
> >> - * Although the duty and period register is 32 bit,
> >> - * however only the LSB 16 bits are significant.
> >> - */
> >> -#define PWM_MAX_DTY 0xFFFF
> >> -#define PWM_MAX_PRD 0xFFFF
> >> -#define PRD_MAX_PRES 10
> >> +/* Max values for period and prescaler */
> >> +
> >> +/* Only the LSB 16 bits are significant. */
> >> +#define PWM_MAXV1_PRD 0xFFFF
> >> +
> >> +/* All 32 bits are significant. */
> >> +#define PWM_MAXV2_PRD 0xFFFFFFFF
> >
> > This symbol is unused, so I wonder if the patch really does what the
> > commit log promises.
>
> It is only of SAM9X60's PWM. Please check patch 3/4. Maybe I should have
> been introduced it in there. If you consider it is better to be introduced
> in patch 3/4 please let me know.

Yeah, I think cpp symbols should be introduced with their first user.
And then the commit log should read something like:

New SAM9X60's PWM controller use 32 bits counters thus it could
generate signals with higher period and duty cycles compared to
the already supported implementations that only have 16 bit
counters. Update the driver to handle counter width depending on
compatible data. Semantically this is a no-op but it's used in
the next patch to add support for SAM9X60.

Best regards
Uwe

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