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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: "Tanwar, Rahul" <rahul.tanwar@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org, thierry.reding@gmail.com,
	p.zabel@pengutronix.de, robh+dt@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	andriy.shevchenko@intel.com, songjun.Wu@intel.com,
	cheol.yong.kim@intel.com, qi-ming.wu@intel.com,
	rahul.tanwar.linux@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] Add PWM fan controller driver for LGM SoC
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:18:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200714071810.2gfrot2zupal2cn6@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e0623c7-45cd-ea60-bae3-a03d991e98bf@linux.intel.com>

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Hello Rahul,

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 01:35:14PM +0800, Tanwar, Rahul wrote:
> On 14/7/2020 3:10 am, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 03:55:32PM +0800, Rahul Tanwar wrote:
> Given the fact that this is a dedicated PWM fan controller with no other
> PWM consumer, do you think that this driver belongs to drivers/hwmon
> instead of drivers/pwm? Thanks.

If you implement the PWM API it belongs to drivers/pwm I'd say. (There
are some "mixed" drivers that implement both GPIO and PWM that live in
drivers/gpio, but if the support can be separated in a sane way, such
mixing isn't welcome.)

Best regards
Uwe

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

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-14  7:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-30  7:55 [PATCH v4 0/2] pwm: intel: Add PWM driver for a new SoC Rahul Tanwar
2020-06-30  7:55 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] Add DT bindings YAML schema for PWM fan controller of LGM SoC Rahul Tanwar
2020-07-13 16:46   ` Rob Herring
2020-07-14  5:32     ` Tanwar, Rahul
2020-06-30  7:55 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] Add PWM fan controller driver for " Rahul Tanwar
2020-07-13 19:10   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2020-07-14  5:35     ` Tanwar, Rahul
2020-07-14  7:18       ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2020-07-23  4:16     ` Tanwar, Rahul
2020-07-23  6:34       ` Uwe Kleine-König

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