[PATCH v4 00/20] Samsung PWM support cleanup

[kgene@kernel.org (Kukjin Kim)]

Tomasz Figa wrote:
> 
> On Monday 22 of July 2013 00:22:16 Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> > On 07/20/2013 02:04 AM, Tomasz Figa wrote:
> > > Since we now have a proper Samsung PWM clocksource driver in place,
> > > we can proceed with further cleanup of PWM timers support on Samsung
> > > SoCs.>
> > > This series attempts to achieve this goal by:
> > >   1) fixing up few things in samsung_pwm_timer clocksource driver,
> > >   2) moving remaining Samsung platforms to the new clocksource driver,
> > >   3) removing old clocksource driver,
> > >   4) adding new multiplatform- and DT-aware PWM driver,
> > >   5) moving all Samsung platforms to use the new PWM driver,
> > >   6) removing old PWM driver,
> > >   7) removing all PWM-related code that is not used anymore.
> > >
> > > Cleaning up the PWM driver is a bit tricky, because the design of
> > > current driver makes it completely unsuitable for DT and
> > > multiplatform and would require a heavy rework to make it usable,
> > > breaking any existing Samsung PWM users by the way. To avoid any
> > > breakage this series first renames the old driver, then adds new one
> > > using original name, migrates all platforms to use it and then
> > > finally removes the old driver.
> > >
> > > See particular patches for more detailed descriptions.
> > >
> > > [On S3C6410-based Tiny6410 (Mini6410-compatible) with pwm-beeper,
> > > SMDK6410 with PWM backlight and Exynos4210-based Origen board (with
> > > PWM0 attached to a scope)]
> > > Tested-by: Tomasz Figa<tomasz.figa@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > [On S3C2440-based Mini2440 board]
> > > Tested-by: Sylwester Nawrocki<sylvester.nawrocki@gmail.com>
> >
> > I have retested this series on top of v3.11-rc1 with pwm-backlight (and
> > buzzer
> > as the output :)) on Mini2440. It seems to work well - generated
> > frequencies are correct. I'll check pulse widths with a scope tomorrow,
> > as it's a bit late
> > now. FWIW you can add to this series my:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
> 
> Thanks. I hope we can finally get this series merged soon.
> 
Yes, this whole patches look good to me, and I'd like to take this whole
patches into the samsung tree...but need to get any response from PWM guy,
Thierry Reding. Let's wait for his response...

Thanks,
Kukjin