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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Cc: thierry.reding@gmail.com, narmstrong@baylibre.com,
	jbrunet@baylibre.com, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] pwm: meson: fix scheduling while atomic issue
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 09:50:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190325085037.f4weycbhaa7yyurt@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190325084153.l44pzfewcqlkoaoe@pengutronix.de>

Hello,

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 09:41:53AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> If you want to implement further cleanups, my questions and propositions
> are:
> 
>  - Is there a publicly available manual for this hardware? If yes, you
>    can add a link to it in the header of the driver.
> 
>  - Why do you handle reparenting of the PWM's clk in .request? Wouldn't
>    this be more suitable in .apply?
> 
>  - Does stopping the PWM (i.e. clearing MISC_{A,B}_EN in the MISC_AB
>    register) freeze the output, or is the currently running period
>    completed first? (The latter is the right behaviour.)
> 
>  - Please point out in the header that for changing period/duty
>    cycle/polarity the hardware must be stopped. (I suggest to apply the
>    style used in https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-pwm/msg09262.html
>    for some consistency.)

Another thing I just noted: The .get_state callback only sets .enabled
but nothing of the remaining information is provided.

Best regards
Uwe

-- 
Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | http://www.pengutronix.de/  |

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-25  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-24 22:02 [PATCH 0/1] pwm: meson: fix scheduling while atomic issue Martin Blumenstingl
2019-03-24 22:02 ` [PATCH 1/1] pwm: meson: use the spin-lock only to protect register modifications Martin Blumenstingl
2019-03-25  8:48   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-03-25  8:41 ` [PATCH 0/1] pwm: meson: fix scheduling while atomic issue Uwe Kleine-König
2019-03-25  8:50   ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2019-03-25 17:41   ` Martin Blumenstingl
2019-03-25 20:07     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-03-26 20:05       ` Martin Blumenstingl
2019-03-30 19:29       ` Martin Blumenstingl
2019-03-31 18:47         ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-04-01  7:25         ` Neil Armstrong
2019-03-26  9:06     ` Neil Armstrong
2019-03-26 10:54       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2019-03-25  9:35 ` Jerome Brunet
2019-03-25 18:04   ` Martin Blumenstingl
2019-03-26  8:37     ` Jerome Brunet
2019-03-26  8:57       ` Neil Armstrong
2019-03-26 20:16       ` Martin Blumenstingl

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