From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
To: Grant Erickson <marathon96@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add OMAP Support for Generic PWM Devices using Dual-mode Timers
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:52:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hbfhcagv.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C9081DFE.1FEE7%marathon96@gmail.com> (Grant Erickson's message of "Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:39:42 -0800")
Grant Erickson <marathon96@gmail.com> writes:
[...]
>> Before something like this can merge, I would rather see
>>
>> 1) generic PWM framework pushed along and merged
>> 2) the dmtimer hwmod conversion finished
>>
>> Yes, I know it's a lot more work to fix the core/framework code before
>> having a feature included, but having something more generic that can
>> actually support multiple PWM sources is clearly needed.
>
> No disagreement on the long-term architectural and design goals. All good
> stuff.
>
> However, patches have to be submitted against the repository and branch we
> have today, not those we might have tomorrow.
This comment is where we diverge.
An alternative to waiting for the generic framework cleanup/refactor
work is to contribute to it and help it along.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-14 19:28 [PATCH] Add OMAP Support for Generic PWM Devices using Dual-mode Timers Grant Erickson
2010-11-16 12:37 ` Hemanth V
2010-11-16 17:45 ` Grant Erickson
2010-11-17 9:58 ` Hemanth V
2010-11-16 12:42 ` Felipe Balbi
2010-11-16 18:00 ` Grant Erickson
2010-11-16 17:01 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-11-16 18:13 ` Grant Erickson
2010-11-16 18:43 ` Kevin Hilman
2010-11-16 19:39 ` Grant Erickson
2010-11-16 19:52 ` Kevin Hilman [this message]
2010-11-16 20:20 ` Tony Lindgren
2010-11-16 18:54 ` Premi, Sanjeev
2010-11-16 19:11 ` Grant Erickson
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