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From: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
	Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm: atmel-hlcdc: Fix default PWM polarity
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 13:04:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160517130409.0670a94f@bbrezillon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160517110005.GA26166@ulmo.ba.sec>

On Tue, 17 May 2016 13:00:05 +0200
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:12:32AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > The PWM device exposed by the HLCDC IP is configured with an inverted
> > polarity by default. Registering the PWM chip with the normal polarity
> > was not a problem before commit 42e8992c58d4 ("pwm: Add core
> > infrastructure to allow atomic updates") because the ->set_polarity()
> > hook was called no matter the current polarity state, but this is no longer
> > the case.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> > Fixes: 42e8992c58d4 ("pwm: Add core infrastructure to allow atomic updates")  
> 
> That's not technically correct, because it's the driver that has the
> bug. The core change merely exposes it.

Agree.

> How about if I sort this into
> the pwm-atomic branch and reword the commit message accordingly? That
> way things should all stay bisectible.

As you wish.

> 
> Then again, given the breakage caused by the pwm_args patch I suppose
> it doesn't matter much because that's part of a stable branch that I
> can't rebase.

Yep, I know :-(.


-- 
Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

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From: boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com (Boris Brezillon)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] pwm: atmel-hlcdc: Fix default PWM polarity
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 13:04:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160517130409.0670a94f@bbrezillon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160517110005.GA26166@ulmo.ba.sec>

On Tue, 17 May 2016 13:00:05 +0200
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:12:32AM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > The PWM device exposed by the HLCDC IP is configured with an inverted
> > polarity by default. Registering the PWM chip with the normal polarity
> > was not a problem before commit 42e8992c58d4 ("pwm: Add core
> > infrastructure to allow atomic updates") because the ->set_polarity()
> > hook was called no matter the current polarity state, but this is no longer
> > the case.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> > Fixes: 42e8992c58d4 ("pwm: Add core infrastructure to allow atomic updates")  
> 
> That's not technically correct, because it's the driver that has the
> bug. The core change merely exposes it.

Agree.

> How about if I sort this into
> the pwm-atomic branch and reword the commit message accordingly? That
> way things should all stay bisectible.

As you wish.

> 
> Then again, given the breakage caused by the pwm_args patch I suppose
> it doesn't matter much because that's part of a stable branch that I
> can't rebase.

Yep, I know :-(.


-- 
Boris Brezillon, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2016-05-17 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-05-17  9:12 [PATCH] pwm: atmel-hlcdc: Fix default PWM polarity Boris Brezillon
2016-05-17  9:12 ` Boris Brezillon
2016-05-17 11:00 ` Thierry Reding
2016-05-17 11:00   ` Thierry Reding
2016-05-17 11:04   ` Boris Brezillon [this message]
2016-05-17 11:04     ` Boris Brezillon
2016-05-17 12:08   ` Boris Brezillon
2016-05-17 12:08     ` Boris Brezillon
2016-05-17 12:19     ` Thierry Reding
2016-05-17 12:19       ` Thierry Reding
2016-05-17 12:27       ` Boris Brezillon
2016-05-17 12:27         ` Boris Brezillon
2016-06-14  7:58   ` Boris Brezillon
2016-06-14  7:58     ` Boris Brezillon
2016-06-14  8:55     ` Thierry Reding
2016-06-14  8:55       ` Thierry Reding

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