[PATCH] This adds a generic PWM framework driver for the PWM controller

[maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com (Maxime Ripard)]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 08:11:40AM -0400, jonsmirl at gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 03:53:08PM -0400, jonsmirl at gmail.com wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Maxime Ripard
> >> <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 02:03:16PM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >> >> found on Allwinner SoCs.x
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
> >> >
> >> > Is there any notable difference with Alexandre's driver?
> >> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/19/568
> >> >
> >> > If so, why didn't you posted incremental patches on top of his driver?
> >>
> >> Better A10 support.
> >
> > Better how?
> >
> >> And I wrote this one without know about his.
> >
> > So you're just require us to trash an already extensively reviewed
> > driver and start from scratch again?
> 
> Forget mine then.
> 
> Problems in the other one....
> 1) The math is not right in either patch. Selsinork has been checking
> mine with a scope and just found another math error in mine. The
> internal math needs to be done in picoseconds or round off errors mess
> up the high frequency outputs (24Mhz, 12Mhz, 8Mhz, ...).

Feel free to report this to Alexandre so he fixes it then.

> 3) By-pass mode on the A20 is not implemented.
> 2) A10 is not correctly handled. Specifically the prescaler is
> different on the A10 vs A20.

And these can be sent as patches on top of Alexandre's driver, and
they would be very much welcome.

Remember to run scripts/checkpatch.pl before sending them though, and
by a quick look at your driver, you should also read
Documentation/CodingStyle.

Thanks!
Maxime

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Maxime Ripard, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com
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