[PATCH] dt-bindings: pwm: Add generic "pwm-channels" property

[Andre Przywara]

Many PWM drivers seem to hardcode the number of PWM channels
(brcm,iproc-pwm, brcm,kona-pwm.txt). If this is only one device
supported by the binding, that's probably OK, but for instance for
sun4i-pwm I see one or two channels, depending on the particular SoC.
amlogic,meson-gxbb-pwm seems to deduce the number of channels from the
number of input clocks, and pwm-st has a vendor-specific property for
that (st,pwm-num-chan).
To cover all those cases more elegantly in (future) bindings, add a new
generic property to specify the number of PWM channels a particular
controller implements.
For instance the sun4i-pwm driver could be extended to support this for
future SoCs as well.

Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>

---
Hi,

while looking at the bindings for PWM drivers, I was wondering if we
should have a generic property to note the number of implemented
channels? We have something for instance for DMA controllers
(dma-channels), so adding this to PWM controller bindings sounds
natural.
In particular the new sun8i-pwm IP seems to be scalable to a number of
channels, judging from the register and bit layout and from the bit
assignment in the manual. I have the gut feeling we will meet this fella
again in another Allwinner SoC with a different number of channels.

Thanks!
Andre.

 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt
index 8556263b8502..770f3aee17af 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt
@@ -60,10 +60,16 @@ Example with optional PWM specifier for inverse polarity
 PWM controller nodes must specify the number of cells used for the
 specifier using the '#pwm-cells' property.
 
+A specific controller binding might specify the implemented number of
+PWM channels using this generic property:
+	pwm-channels = <8>;
+This property holds a single 32 bit integer.
+
 An example PWM controller might look like this:
 
 	pwm: pwm at 7000a000 {
 		compatible = "nvidia,tegra20-pwm";
 		reg = <0x7000a000 0x100>;
 		#pwm-cells = <2>;
+		pwm-channels = <4>;
 	};
-- 
2.14.1