On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 1:45 AM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 05:38:44PM -0800, Tim Kryger wrote: > Okay, that's fine then. Do you have a pointer to that documentation? Unfortunately the documentation is not publicly available at the moment. >> The hardware is always enabled and at best can be be configured to >> operate at zero duty. > > What good are the PWMOUT_ENABLE bits then? Is that really only used for > triggering updates? That's what another comment suggests, but if so, can > the comment in kona_pwmc_apply_settings() be extended to mention that? The guidance from the documentation is to treat the enable bits as a trigger. Sure I can expand the comment to try and make this more clear. >> The settings in HW may have already been triggered and might not be >> what you want. >> >> For example: >> >> /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0/pwm1# echo 1 > enable >> /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0/pwm1# echo 5000 > period >> /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0/pwm1# echo 2000 > duty_cycle >> /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0/pwm1# echo 0 > enable >> /sys/class/pwm/pwmchip0/pwm1# echo 1 > enable > > I'm not exactly sure what this is supposed to demonstrate. The computation has to be performed for every operation except the disable. > All of that said, I wasn't able to dig up a normative policy and either > of your proposed alternatives do exist in the kernel, so I withdraw any > objections regarding MODULE_AUTHOR. Take your pick. Thanks -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
