[PATCH 1/7] ir-rx51: Handle signals properly

Tony Lindgren tony at atomide.com
Fri Dec 14 14:41:16 EST 2012


* Timo Kokkonen <timo.t.kokkonen at iki.fi> [121214 11:33]:
> On 12/14/12 19:26, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > 
> > if it's really for PWM, shouldn't we be using drivers/pwm/ ??
> > 
> 
> Now that Neil Brown posted the PWM driver for omap, I've been thinking
> about whether converting the ir-rx51 into the PWM API would work. Maybe
> controlling the PWM itself would be sufficient, but the ir-rx51 uses
> also another dmtimer for creating accurate (enough) timing source for
> the IR pulse edges.

OK.
 
> I haven't tried whether the default 32kHz clock source is enough for
> that. Now that I think about it, I don't see why it wouldn't be good
> enough. I think it would even be possible to just use the PWM api alone

Cool.

Regards,

Tony



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