[PATCH v4 00/20] Samsung PWM support cleanup

[Tomasz Figa]

On Monday 22 of July 2013 00:22:16 Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> On 07/20/2013 02:04 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > Since we now have a proper Samsung PWM clocksource driver in place,
> > we can proceed with further cleanup of PWM timers support on Samsung
> > SoCs.> 
> > This series attempts to achieve this goal by:
> >   1) fixing up few things in samsung_pwm_timer clocksource driver,
> >   2) moving remaining Samsung platforms to the new clocksource driver,
> >   3) removing old clocksource driver,
> >   4) adding new multiplatform- and DT-aware PWM driver,
> >   5) moving all Samsung platforms to use the new PWM driver,
> >   6) removing old PWM driver,
> >   7) removing all PWM-related code that is not used anymore.
> > 
> > Cleaning up the PWM driver is a bit tricky, because the design of
> > current driver makes it completely unsuitable for DT and
> > multiplatform and would require a heavy rework to make it usable,
> > breaking any existing Samsung PWM users by the way. To avoid any
> > breakage this series first renames the old driver, then adds new one
> > using original name, migrates all platforms to use it and then
> > finally removes the old driver.
> > 
> > See particular patches for more detailed descriptions.
> > 
> > [On S3C6410-based Tiny6410 (Mini6410-compatible) with pwm-beeper,
> > SMDK6410 with PWM backlight and Exynos4210-based Origen board (with
> > PWM0 attached to a scope)]
> > Tested-by: Tomasz Figa<tomasz.figa at gmail.com>
> > 
> > [On S3C2440-based Mini2440 board]
> > Tested-by: Sylwester Nawrocki<sylvester.nawrocki at gmail.com>
> 
> I have retested this series on top of v3.11-rc1 with pwm-backlight (and
> buzzer
> as the output :)) on Mini2440. It seems to work well - generated
> frequencies are correct. I'll check pulse widths with a scope tomorrow,
> as it's a bit late
> now. FWIW you can add to this series my:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki at samsung.com>

Thanks. I hope we can finally get this series merged soon.

Best regards,
Tomasz