Re: [PATCH] mfd: Add TWL4030 PWM driver

Thierry Reding
2012-03-21T08:49:06Z

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* Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2012, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > 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 <walle@corscience.de>
> > >
> > > 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?
>
> Thierry Reding has been busily posting patches, so he probably has
> one that you can use, but I couldn't find it now.

I don't have a public tree anywhere. Does anyone have a recommendation where
I could set one up? github or gitorious are the first to come to my mind.

Thierry

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