Re: [PATCH] gpio: pca953x: Add Maxim MAX7313 PWM support

[Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 10:33 PM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:32:23PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > pon., 4 lis 2019 o 16:11 Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@xxxxxxxxxxx> napisał(a):
> > > Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote on Tue, 15 Oct 2019
> > > 17:55:33 +0300:
> > >
> > > > Or other way around. PWM registers GPIO (which actually I prefer since
> > > > we have PCA9685 case where PWM provides GPIO functionality, though via
> > > > different means)

> While it's not nice to have a driver that provides two different devices
> (here: gpio controller and pwm controller) similar things are not
> unseen. And for example the splitting of watchdog
> (drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c) and rtc
> (drivers/rtc/rtc-stmp3xxx.c) of the device in the mx28 is more trouble
> than worth.
>
> So I'd vote for putting it in a single file that lives where the
> bigger/more complex part fits to. So assuming that's the GPIO part (as
> the driver supports several variants and not all of them have a PWM
> function if I'm not mistaken) having it in drivers/gpio is fine for me.

For me it sounds more likely that PWM is a *pin function* of a pin
controller and actually this GPIO driver should be a pin controller
with corresponding function(s).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko