[RFC PATCH 00/15] pwm: add support for atomic update

Tomi Valkeinen tomi.valkeinen at ti.com
Thu Jul 2 00:17:00 PDT 2015



On 02/07/15 10:03, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Boris,
> 
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2015 at 10:21:46AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
>> This series adds support for atomic PWM update, or ITO, the capability
>> to update all the parameters of a PWM device (enabled/disabled, period,
>> duty and polarity) in one go.
> on first reading the subject of your series I thought it was about
> asserting that the newly set config is active before the call to
> pwm_config (et al) returns. That's a problem I addressed a few times in
> the past. I wonder if it's only me or if a different wording should be
> used for "update all parameters with a single function call".

In my vocabulary "blocking" means that the work is done before the
function returns, and "atomic" means the work is done in one step.

 Tomi

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