[RFC] add pwmlib support

[Sascha Hauer]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:35:33AM +0100, Arun MURTHY wrote:
> Hi Sascha,
> 
> > > I Cced the people working with PWMs in the kernel in the hope that
> > they can
> > > give input on what's missing / wrong in this implementation
> > >
> > > Sascha
> > >
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > There have been two other proposals for a generic PWM api during the
> > last year.
> > You might want to take a look at them.
> > 
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/9/275
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/28/107
> > 
> > I've added Bill Gatliff and Arun Murthy to Cc.
> > 
> 
> As said by Lars, we already have developed the pwm core driver and
> progressing towards aligning the existing pwm drivers to the pwm core
> driver.
> These set of patches are expected to be out in LKML by this week.

Nice, problem solved without me having to work on it ;). Please consider
Ccing linux-arm-kernel as many of your potential users are following this
list.

Sascha


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