[PATCH v3 01/12] pwm: introduce default period and polarity concepts

Robert Jarzmik robert.jarzmik at free.fr
Mon Sep 21 11:20:29 PDT 2015


Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> writes:

> When requested by a user, the PWM is assigned a default period and polarity
> extracted from the DT, the platform data or statically set by the driver.
> Those default values are currently stored in the period and polarity
> fields of the pwm_device struct, but they will be stored somewhere else
> once we have introduced the architecture allowing for hardware state
> retrieval.
>
> The pwm_set_default_polarity and pwm_set_default_period should only be
> used by PWM drivers or the PWM core infrastructure to specify the
> default period and polarity values.
>
> PWM users might call the pwm_get_default_period to query the default
> period value. There is currently no helper to query the default
> polarity, but it might be added later on if there is a need for it.
>
> This patch also modifies all the places where the default helpers should
> be used in place of the standard ones.
>
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
For pwm-pxa.c :
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik at free.fr>

Cheers.

--
Robert



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