From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756181Ab2CUGPg (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:15:36 -0400 Received: from smtprelay05.ispgateway.de ([80.67.31.99]:38303 "EHLO smtprelay05.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753913Ab2CUGPe (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2012 02:15:34 -0400 Message-ID: <4F697201.1090206@bwalle.de> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 07:15:29 +0100 From: Bernhard Walle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.7; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120313 Thunderbird/11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.ports.arm.omap To: Arnd Bergmann CC: Bernhard Walle , sameo@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: Add TWL4030 PWM driver References: <1332262083-9375-1-git-send-email-walle@corscience.de> <201203202202.12060.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201203202202.12060.arnd@arndb.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: YmVybmhhcmRAYndhbGxlLmRl Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 20.03.12 23:02, schrieb Arnd Bergmann: > On Tuesday 20 March 2012, Bernhard Walle wrote: >> >> This PWM driver uses the PWM of the TWL4030. The driver for the TWL6030 >> PWM has been used as mode, but the PWM registers are different. >> >> The driver can be used and has been tested in conjunction with >> pwm-backlight to control a backlight LED of a LCD touch screen. >> >> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle > > Since it's too late for v3.4 now and we will get a new pwm > subsystem in v3.5, I suggest you change the driver to work > register with that subsystem instead of just using the old > header file. Note that drivers/mfd is not really the right > place anyway, because this is not a multifunction driver but > just one device driver that happens to be a slave of an mfd. Does that new subsystem already exist in some tree? Regards, Bernhard