[PATCH v3 02/10] pwm: Allow chips to support multiple PWMs.

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at avionic-design.de
Sat Mar 3 14:32:49 EST 2012


* Thierry Reding wrote:
> * Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Thursday 23 February 2012, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > > > Is this only used for the device tree functions? If so, I would recommend
> > > > making it less generic and always search for a device node.
> > > 
> > > It is currently only used to look up a struct pwm_chip for a given struct
> > > device_node, yes. But I can see other uses for this. For instance this could
> > > be useful if we ever want to provide an alternative way of requesting a PWM
> > > on a per-chip basis.
> > 
> > Nah, just keep it simple for now. If we need it later, we can still
> > add something like this back, but for now it's just a source of
> > confusion and possible bugs.
> 
> Will do.

I turns out that this is not as easy to do as I thought. The problem is that
if I remove the pwmchip_find() from the core and move the lookup
functionality into the OF support code I no longer have access to the list of
PWM chips. So I guess it will have to stay in to keep things encapsulated
properly.

Thierry
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