From: "Lothar Waßmann" <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
To: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "Thierry Reding" <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
"Vokáč Michal" <Michal.Vokac@ysoft.com>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org>,
"Lukasz Majewski" <l.majewski@majess.pl>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
"kernel@pengutronix.de" <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
"Fabio Estevam" <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>,
"Linus Walleij" <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [RCF PATCH,v2,2/2] pwm: imx: Configure output to GPIO in disabled state
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 12:56:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181116125633.4e110125@ipc1.ka-ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181116103929.cxfvuc2te7cadhp2@pengutronix.de>
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Hello Thierry,
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 10:51:24AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 09:37:33PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 04:25:45PM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
[...]
> > But why? The backlight doesn't care about the specific pinmuxing of the
> > PWM pin. All it cares about is the PWM signal. That's the level of
> > abstraction that the PWM consumer expects, anything lower level belongs
> > in the PWM driver.
>
> The backlight driver cares about the PWM pin muxing because if it's
> wrongly muxed the backlight doesn't work as intended.
>
With this argumentation you would also have to define the clocks needed
for the PWM in the backlight (or whatever pwm consumer) driver, because
if the clocks are not set up correctly the backlight won't work as
expected...
The PWM driver is driving the pins, so that is where the pinctrls
belong.
Lothar Waßmann
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-16 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-10 9:33 [RCF PATCH v2 0/2] pwm: imx: Configure output to GPIO in disabled state Vokáč Michal
2018-10-10 9:33 ` [RCF PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: pwm: imx: Allow switching PWM output between PWM and GPIO Vokáč Michal
2018-10-10 13:39 ` Thierry Reding
2018-10-29 15:52 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-10-10 9:33 ` [RCF PATCH v2 2/2] pwm: imx: Configure output to GPIO in disabled state Vokáč Michal
2018-10-12 8:57 ` [RCF PATCH,v2,2/2] " Uwe Kleine-König
2018-10-12 15:04 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-10-12 15:54 ` Thierry Reding
2018-10-12 16:08 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-10-14 20:24 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-10-15 8:45 ` Thierry Reding
2018-10-29 15:55 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-10-29 15:54 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-11-07 9:33 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-07 13:32 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-11-07 15:01 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-08 15:21 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-11-08 19:18 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-09 14:24 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-11-09 16:55 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-14 9:09 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-14 11:34 ` Thierry Reding
2018-11-14 21:51 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-15 15:25 ` Thierry Reding
2018-11-15 20:37 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-16 7:34 ` Lothar Waßmann
2018-11-16 8:25 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-22 15:42 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-11-22 16:23 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-22 16:46 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-11-22 19:03 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-23 15:15 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-11-25 20:56 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-26 9:11 ` Lothar Waßmann
2018-11-26 9:18 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-26 10:03 ` Lothar Waßmann
2018-11-26 11:51 ` Thierry Reding
2018-11-26 12:23 ` Lothar Waßmann
2018-11-26 13:34 ` Thierry Reding
2018-11-26 15:50 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-11-16 9:51 ` Thierry Reding
2018-11-16 10:39 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-16 11:56 ` Lothar Waßmann [this message]
2018-11-18 11:30 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-16 12:24 ` Thierry Reding
2018-11-18 20:08 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-19 8:48 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-22 15:03 ` Thierry Reding
2018-11-22 16:17 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-20 13:14 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-11-20 16:54 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-22 14:23 ` Vokáč Michal
2018-11-19 7:44 ` Linus Walleij
2018-11-19 8:32 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-20 8:35 ` Linus Walleij
2018-11-20 9:16 ` Viresh Kumar
2018-11-20 9:53 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-11-14 11:14 ` Thierry Reding
2018-10-12 16:00 ` [RCF PATCH v2 2/2] " Thierry Reding
2018-10-29 15:53 ` Vokáč Michal
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