Hello Andy, On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 02:57:32PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:12:42AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > I didn't follow the complete discussion but note that the general rule > > is: > > > > round period down to the next possible implementable period > > round duty_cycle down to the next possible implementable duty_cycle > > > > so if a small enough period (and so a small duty_cycle) is requested it > > is expected that duty_cycle will be zero. > > ...which brings me an idea that PWM framework should expose API to get a > capabilities, like DMA Engine has. > > In such capabilities, in particular, caller can get ranges of the correct > frequencies of the underneath hardware. my idea is to introduce a function pwm_round_state() that has a similar semantic to clk_round_rate(). But this is only one of several thoughts I have for the pwm framework. And as there is (AFAIK) no user who would benefit from pwm_round_state() this is further down on my todo list. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-König | Industrial Linux Solutions | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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