[PATCH] pinctrl: armada-37xx: Correct PWM pins definitions

Marek Behún kabel at kernel.org
Thu Jun 17 02:55:27 PDT 2021


On Tue, 15 Jun 2021 00:25:27 +0200
Marek Behún <kabel at kernel.org> wrote:

> The PWM pins on North Bridge on Armada 37xx can be configured into PWM
> or GPIO functions. When in PWM function, each pin can also be
> configured to drive low on 0 and tri-state on 1 (LED mode).
> 
> The current definitions handle this by declaring two pin groups for
> each pin:
> - group "pwmN" with functions "pwm" and "gpio"
> - group "ledN_od" ("od" for open drain) with functions "led" and
> "gpio"
> 
> This is semantically incorrect. The correct definition for each pin
> should be one group with three functions: "pwm", "led" and "gpio".
> 
> Change the "pwmN" groups to support "led" function.
> 
> Remove "ledN_od" groups. This cannot break backwards compatibility
> with older device trees: no device tree uses it since there is no PWM
> driver for this SOC yet. Also "ledN_od" groups are not even
> documented.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel at kernel.org>

Should this also have a Fixes tag? (If it is accepted...?)



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list