[PATCH] pwm: lpc18xx-sct: don't reconfigure PWM in .request and .free

[thierry.reding@gmail.com (Thierry Reding)]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 07:52:08AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> Regarding the .request case: The consumer might be interested in taking
> over the configured state from the boot loader. So the initially
> configured state should be retained.
> 
> For the free case the PWM consumer is responsible to disable the PWM
> before calling pwm_release and there are three subcases to consider:
> 
>  a) The pwm is already off. Then there is no gain in disabling the PWM
>     once more.
>  b) The pwm is still running and there is a good reason for that. (Not
>     sure this is a valid case, I cannot imagine such a good reason.)
>     Then it is contra productive to disable the pwm.
>  c) The pwm is still running because the consumer failed to disable the
>     PWM. Then the consumer needs fixing and there is little incentive to
>     paper over the problem in the backend driver.
> 
> This aligns the lpc18xx-sct driver to the other PWM drivers that also
> don't reconfigure the hardware in .request and .free.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K?nig <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/pwm/pwm-lpc18xx-sct.c | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

Applied, with some minor fixes to the commit message (pwm -> PWM,
pwm_release -> pwm_put(), ...).

Thanks,
Thierry
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