linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] add pwmlib support

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Message-ID: <4D46AFAB.3070805@metafoo.de>
Date:	Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:48:43 +0100
From:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
To:	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>
CC:	Arun MURTHY <arun.murthy@...ricsson.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Miao <eric.miao@...aro.org>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Hemanth V <hemanthv@...com>, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Uwe Kleine-Koenig <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>,
	Bill Gatliff <bgat@...lgatliff.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] add pwmlib support

On 01/31/2011 08:54 AM, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:35:33AM +0100, Arun MURTHY wrote:
>> Hi Sascha,
>>
>>>> I Cced the people working with PWMs in the kernel in the hope that
>>> they can
>>>> give input on what's missing / wrong in this implementation
>>>>
>>>> Sascha
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> There have been two other proposals for a generic PWM api during the
>>> last year.
>>> You might want to take a look at them.
>>>
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/9/275
>>> https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/28/107
>>>
>>> I've added Bill Gatliff and Arun Murthy to Cc.
>>>
>>
>> As said by Lars, we already have developed the pwm core driver and
>> progressing towards aligning the existing pwm drivers to the pwm core
>> driver.
>> These set of patches are expected to be out in LKML by this week.
> 
> Nice, problem solved without me having to work on it ;).

I wouldn't call it problem solved yet.
I liked your approach better so far, but lets see how the next iteration of Aruns
patches turn out.

- Lars
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