[RFC] add pwmlib support

[Lars-Peter Clausen]

On 01/31/2011 08:54 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> 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 ;).

I wouldn't call it problem solved yet.
I liked your approach better so far, but lets see how the next iteration of Aruns
patches turn out.

- Lars