[PATCH] gpio: mvebu: change compatible string for PWM support

Richard Genoud richard.genoud at gmail.com
Fri Jun 9 00:45:39 PDT 2017


2017-06-09 9:42 GMT+02:00 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>:
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 10:08 PM, Ralph Sennhauser
> <ralph.sennhauser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As it turns out more than just Armada 370 and XP support using GPIO
>> lines as PWM lines. For example the Armada 38x family has the same
>> hardware support. As such "marvell,armada-370-xp-gpio" for the
>> compatible string is a misnomer.
>>
>> Change the compatible string to "marvell,armada-370-gpio" before the
>> driver makes it out of the -rc stage. This also follows the practice of
>> using only the first device family supported as part of the name.
>>
>> Also update the documentation and comments in the code accordingly.
>>
>> Fixes: 757642f9a584 ("gpio: mvebu: Add limited PWM support")
>> Signed-off-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser at gmail.com>
>
> Patch applied for next with the tags.
You mean for fixes right ?
The goal was to correct "marvell,armada-370-xp-gpio" before 4.12 is out.

>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij

Regards,
Richard



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