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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm-pca9685: Allow any of the 16 PWMs to be used as a
 GPIO
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 21:56:38 +0300
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On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 05:40:56PM +0300, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> The PCA9685 controller has full on/off bit for each PWM channel. Setting
> this bit bypasses the PWM control and the line works just as it would be a
> GPIO. Furthermore in Intel Galileo it is actually used as GPIO output for
> discreet muxes on the board.
> 
> This patch adds GPIO output only support for the driver so that we can
> control the muxes on Galileo using standard GPIO interfaces available in
> the kernel. GPIO and PWM functionality is exclusive so only one can be
> active at a time on a single PWM channel.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>

Thierry,

Any comments on this?