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From: s.hauer@pengutronix.de (Sascha Hauer)
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:04:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] PWM: let of_xlate handlers check args count
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 11:56:32AM +0100, Lothar Wa?mann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > of_pwm_n_cells for the of_xlate handler is stored in struct pwm_chip,
> > but it is only ever used by the of_xlate handler itsel. Remove
> > of_pwm_n_cells from struct pwm_chip and let the handler do the argument
> > count checking to simplify the code.
> > 
> This still does not make the PWM_POLARITY flag in the pwms node
> optional as was the goal because of_parse_phandle_with_args() requires
> at least #pwm-cells arguments in the node.
> 
> So, with a DT configuration like:
> pwm0: pwm at 0 {
> 	#pwm-cells = <3>;
> };
> backlight {
> 	pwms = <&pwm0 0 100000>;
> };

We misunderstood each other. My goal was to allow the driver to also
work with old devicetrees which specify #pwm-cells = <2>, not to allow
inconsistent devicetrees like the snippet above.

Sascha

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