On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 05:03:05PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Ralph Sennhauser
> <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> >
> > Armada 370/XP devices can 'blink' gpio lines with a configurable on
> > and off period. This can be modelled as a PWM.
> >
> > However, there are only two sets of PWM configuration registers for
> > all the gpio lines. This driver simply allows a single gpio line per
> > gpio chip of 32 lines to be used as a PWM. Attempts to use more return
> > EBUSY.
> >
> > Due to the interleaving of registers it is not simple to separate the
> > PWM driver from the gpio driver. Thus the gpio driver has been
> > extended with a PWM driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> > URL: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/427287/
> > URL: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/427295/
> > [Ralph Sennhauser:
> >   * port forward
> >   * merge pwm portion into gpio-mvebu.c
> >   * merge doc patch
> >   * update MAINAINERS]
> > Signed-off-by: Ralph Sennhauser <ralph.sennhauser@gmail.com>
> 
> In essence I am very positive of this patch set and happy to merge
> it as a PWM driver inside of GPIO if Thierry is OK with it.

No objections to the concept of making a GPIO driver implement a PWM
chip when it makes sense.

Thierry