Hey Thierry,
On 06-11-15 16:18, Thierry Reding wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:32:39PM +0100, Olliver Schinagl wrote:
From: Olliver Schinagl <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Some hardware PWM's have the possibility to only send out one (or more)
pulses. This can be quite a useful feature in case one wants or needs
only a single pulse, but at the exact width.
Additionally, if multiple pulses are possible, outputting a fixed amount
of pulses can be useful for various timing specific purposes.
I see how theoretically this would be nice to have. But I'm reluctant to
merge this feature if there aren't any users. What drivers in the kernel
would want to use this feature? Are there new drivers being worked on
that will need this?
I should have brought this up as to why I added this, I'm working on a
stepper driver framework (inspired by the pwm framework actually) and
rotating moters by x degree's you do by sending pulses, using controlled
pulses (timing wise) you can precisely move stepper motors. Yes we can
do this reasonably accurate in software, but doing it in hardware is so
much nicer.
A few new functions have been expanded or added for this new behavior.
* pwm_config() now takes an additional parameter to setup the number of
pulses to output. The driver may force this to 0 or 1
for if example if this feature is not or only partially
supported
This is problematic because you need to atomically update all drivers
and users (the kbuild robot already told you that you didn't do this).
To make things easier I suggest you wait with this change until the
atomic PWM patches have been merged, at which point it should become a
lot easier to deal with this kind of extension.
yes, I think i mentioned this in the cover letter, I wanted to get your
input whilst waiting for Boris's patches. So I deffinatly want to
combine it then, just getting some head work started :)
* pwm_[sg]et_pulse_count() get or set the number of pulses the pwm
framework is configured for
* pwm_get_pulse_count_max() get the maximum number of pulses the pwm
driver supports
* pwm_pulse() Tell the PWM to emit a pre-configured number of pulses
Isn't this essentially the same as pwm_enable()? I'd think that if the
PWM is configured to output pulses, then pwm_enable() would simply do
what it's been configured to do (emit the pulses). Why the need for an
additional function?
pwm_pulse() should be dropped, I think I accidentally left that in the
documentation, sorry.
* pwm_pulse_done() an internal function for drivers to call when
they have completed their pre-configured number
of pulses
* pwm_is_pulsing() tells the callers if the pwm is busy pulsing,
yielding a little more information than just
pwm_is_enabled()
Similarily, I'd think that once the PWM is done executing the series of
pulses that it was configured for it would be automatically disabled. A
consumer could then simply use pwm_is_enabled() and drivers could call
pwm_disable() on their PWM to mark them as disabled when they're done
pulsing.
I agree, pulseating can be dropped too as we know that a) the pulse flag
is set, b) we are enabled. But I'm not sure now if the flag is exported
to sysfs, in any case, sysfs should just check the pulseating flag?
Signed-off-by: Olliver Schinagl <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/pwm/core.c | 30 +++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/pwm/pwm-gpio.c | 3 ++-
drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c | 3 ++-
drivers/pwm/sysfs.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
include/linux/pwm.h | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
5 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/pwm/core.c b/drivers/pwm/core.c
index 3f9df3e..e2c1c0a 100644
--- a/drivers/pwm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/pwm/core.c
@@ -432,22 +432,29 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(pwm_free);
* @pwm: PWM device
* @duty_ns: "on" time (in nanoseconds)
* @period_ns: duration (in nanoseconds) of one cycle
+ * @pulse_count: number of pulses (periods) to output on pwm_pulse
*
* Returns: 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.
*/
-int pwm_config(struct pwm_device *pwm, int duty_ns, int period_ns)
+int pwm_config(struct pwm_device *pwm, int duty_ns, int period_ns,
+ unsigned int pulse_count)
Like I said, this is problematic because every driver and every consumer
now needs to be aware of pulsing. Once the PWM atomic patches are merged
this will become easier to do because the pulse configuration would be a
part of the atomic state, and hence can be conveniently ignored by users
and driver alike.
I agree :) I'll take your initial comments and work with those so far in
cleaning stuff up. Feel free to get back to me about the validity of the
pwm_pulse for steppers generally
Thierry
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Met vriendelijke groeten, Kind regards, 与亲切的问候
Olliver Schinagl
Software Engineer
Research & Development
Ultimaker B.V.
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