Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] pwm: max7360: Add MAX7360 PWM support

["Mathieu Dubois-Briand" <mathieu.dubois-briand@bootlin.com>]

On Mon Jan 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM CET, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello Mathieu,
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 04:47:45PM +0100, Mathieu Dubois-Briand wrote:
> > On Fri Jan 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM CET, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > sounds great. Note that the detail in rounding that is different for
> > > waveforms is that a value that cannot be round down to a valid value
> > > (because it's too small) is round up. This is a bit ugly in the drivers
> > > but simplifies usage considerably. So you never return -EINVAL because
> > > the values don't fit.
> > 
> > Sorry, I'm not sure I got it right. Does this affect the three members
> > of pwm_waveform (period_length_ns, duty_offset_ns, duty_length_ns) ? So
> > on this device where the period is fixed and I cannot define an offset,
> > does that mean I will silently accept any value for period_length_ns and
> > duty_offset_ns ?
>
> Yes. The fromhw callback obviously always fills the respective constants
> into .period_length_ns and .duty_offset_ns and the tohw callback
> essentially only looks at .duty_length_ns.
>
> Best regards
> Uwe

Ok, thanks! I will make these changes for the next version.

Best regards,
Mathieu

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