From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: thierry.reding@gmail.com (Thierry Reding) Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:10:08 +0200 Subject: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with recent changes In-Reply-To: <20160608205152.GA5511@rob-hp-laptop> References: <20160608092135.21184-1-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20160608092135.21184-21-lee.jones@linaro.org> <20160608205152.GA5511@rob-hp-laptop> Message-ID: <20160610131008.GF27142@ulmo.ba.sec> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:51:52PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote: > On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > We're renaming the 'st,pwm-num-chan' binding to 'st,pwm-num-devs' to > > be more inline with the naming conventions of the subsystem. Where > > we used to treat each line as a channel, the PWM convention is to > > describe them as devices. > > That's all linux implementation details and you are breaking > compatibility. While it's true that the API calls channels struct pwm_device, that's primarily for historical reasons. It's completely fine, and in fact most drivers already do exactly that, to internally refer to channels as channels. Thierry -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: