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From: "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
<benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 23:06 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:43 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote:
>> >> This series proposes a "generic PWM" driver API.
>> >>
>> >> This proposed API is motivated by the author's need to support
>> >> pluggable devices; a secondary objective is to consolidate the
>> >> existing PWM implementations behind an agreeable, consistent,
>> >> redundancy-reducing interface.
>> >
>> >  .../...
>> >
>> > You should send your patches to the main linux kernel list !
>>
>> Perhaps.  But it seemed more relevant to this crowd, and the linux-embedded
>> crowd, and the linux-arm-kernel crowd.
>
> Sure but if you want then applied, you probably still need lkml and
> andrew.
>
>> At the very least, it made sense to present it in this sort of venue first.
>> Given that it's a "global" API proposal, I suppose I'll have to run it by lkml
>> at some point--- unless one of the aforementioned groups can mainline it themselves.
>
> For review and comments, sure.


What do the device tree deities have to say about PWM support?


-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com