From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
"Mark Rutland" <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
"Daniel Lezcano" <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Ralf Baechle" <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
"Paul Burton" <paul.burton@mips.com>,
"James Hogan" <jhogan@kernel.org>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Mathieu Malaterre" <malat@debian.org>,
"Ezequiel Garcia" <ezequiel@collabora.co.uk>,
"PrasannaKumar Muralidharan" <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>,
linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-watchdog@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-clk@vger.kernel.org, od@zcrc.me
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 15/26] pwm: jz4740: Add support for the JZ4725B
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:18:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213161831.GC13531@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1544709795.18952.1@crapouillou.net>
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 03:03:15PM +0100, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le jeu. 13 déc. 2018 à 10:24, Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> a écrit :
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 11:09:10PM +0100, Paul Cercueil wrote:
> > > The PWM in the JZ4725B works the same as in the JZ4740, except that
> > > it
> > > only has 6 channels available instead of 8.
> >
> > this driver is probed only from device tree? If yes, it might be
> > sensible to specify the number of PWMs there and get it from there.
> > There doesn't seem to be a generic binding for that, but there are
> > several drivers that could benefit from it. (This is a bigger project
> > though and shouldn't stop your patch. Still more as it already got
> > Thierry's ack.)
>
> I think there needs to be a proper guideline, as there doesn't seem to be
> a consensus about this. I learned from emails with Rob and Linus (Walleij)
> that I should not have in devicetree what I can deduce from the compatible
> string.
Correct. If the compatible string already defines the number of PWMs
that the hardware exposes, there's no need to explicitly say so again in
DT.
Thierry
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Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-12 22:08 [PATCH v8 00/26] Ingenic TCU patchset v8 Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:08 ` [PATCH v8 01/26] dt-bindings: ingenic: Add DT bindings for TCU clocks Paul Cercueil
2018-12-17 23:18 ` Stephen Boyd
2018-12-12 22:08 ` [PATCH v8 02/26] doc: Add doc for the Ingenic TCU hardware Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:08 ` [PATCH v8 03/26] dt-bindings: Add doc for the Ingenic TCU drivers Paul Cercueil
2018-12-17 21:05 ` Rob Herring
2018-12-17 22:03 ` Paul Cercueil
2018-12-18 16:36 ` Rob Herring
2018-12-22 11:09 ` Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:08 ` [PATCH v8 04/26] clocksource: Add a new timer-ingenic driver Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 05/26] clocksource: Add driver for the Ingenic JZ47xx OST Paul Cercueil
2019-01-23 12:58 ` Mathieu Malaterre
2019-01-23 14:31 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-01-23 17:25 ` Paul Cercueil
2019-01-23 18:01 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-01-24 19:28 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-01-24 20:46 ` Paul Cercueil
2019-01-24 22:46 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-01-24 22:53 ` Paul Cercueil
2019-02-23 3:17 ` Paul Cercueil
2019-02-25 18:05 ` Stephen Boyd
2019-02-27 23:54 ` Paul Cercueil
2019-01-23 17:27 ` Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 06/26] MAINTAINERS: Add myself as maintainer for Ingenic TCU drivers Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 07/26] watchdog: jz4740: Use WDT clock provided by TCU driver Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 08/26] watchdog: jz4740: Use regmap " Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 09/26] watchdog: jz4740: Avoid starting watchdog in set_timeout Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 10/26] watchdog: jz4740: Drop dependency on MACH_JZ47xx, use COMPILE_TEST Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 11/26] pwm: jz4740: Use regmap and clocks from TCU driver Paul Cercueil
2018-12-13 9:30 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-13 14:34 ` Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 12/26] pwm: jz4740: Allow selection of PWM channels 0 and 1 Paul Cercueil
2018-12-13 9:18 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-13 13:58 ` Paul Cercueil
2018-12-13 20:32 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-16 13:36 ` Paul Cercueil
2018-12-17 7:43 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 13/26] pwm: jz4740: Drop dependency on MACH_INGENIC, use COMPILE_TEST Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 14/26] pwm: jz4740: Remove unused devicetree compatible strings Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 15/26] pwm: jz4740: Add support for the JZ4725B Paul Cercueil
2018-12-13 9:24 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-13 14:03 ` Paul Cercueil
2018-12-13 16:18 ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2018-12-13 20:42 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-14 13:50 ` Linus Walleij
2018-12-14 14:26 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-14 14:56 ` Linus Walleij
2018-12-16 14:18 ` Paul Cercueil
2018-12-17 7:53 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-20 17:39 ` Thierry Reding
2018-12-20 20:58 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 16/26] clk: jz4740: Add TCU clock Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 17/26] MIPS: Kconfig: Select TCU timer driver when MACH_INGENIC is set Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 18/26] MIPS: jz4740: Add DTS nodes for the TCU drivers Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 19/26] MIPS: qi_lb60: Move PWM devices to devicetree Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:09 ` [PATCH v8 20/26] MIPS: qi_lb60: Reduce system timer and clocksource to 750 kHz Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:12 ` [PATCH v8 21/26] MIPS: CI20: Reduce system timer and clocksource to 3 MHz Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:12 ` [PATCH v8 22/26] MIPS: CI20: defconfig: enable OST driver Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:13 ` [PATCH v8 23/26] MIPS: GCW0: Move clocksource to TCU channel 2 Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:13 ` [PATCH v8 24/26] MIPS: GCW0: Reduce system timer and clocksource to 750 kHz Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:14 ` [PATCH v8 25/26] MIPS: GCW0: defconfig: Enable OST, watchdog, PWM drivers Paul Cercueil
2018-12-12 22:15 ` [PATCH v8 26/26] MIPS: jz4740: Drop obsolete code Paul Cercueil
2019-01-24 21:26 ` [PATCH v8 00/26] Ingenic TCU patchset v8 Mathieu Malaterre
2019-01-24 21:41 ` Paul Cercueil
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