Re: [Device-drivers-devel] [PATCH] IIO: trigger: New Blackfin specific trigger driver iio-trig-bfin-timer

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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:03, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 02/16/11 13:42, michael.hennerich@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> This driver allows any Blackfin system timer to be used as IIO trigger.
>> It supports trigger rates from 0 to 100kHz in Hz resolution.
>
> The reason we ended up with a rtc based trigger in the first place, was that
> I had a very similar set of timers on the pxa271 that I mainly develop with.
>
> At the time some debate opened up on whether there was a use case here for
> a more general way of providing access to system periodic timers for exactly
> this sort of device. ÂThe view seemed to be that there was, but I certainly didn't
> have time to do it at the time and no one else seems to have looked at it since.
> My dirty solution was an rtc driver that just added a lot of rtcs. It was never
> going to merge though...
>
> Right now I can only track down a previous email from myself saying this has
> been discussed a number of times, but naturally with no references at all. Oops.
>
> Anyhow, such a general subsystem for cpu timers doesn't exist AFAIK so for now
> lets just go with your approach. Perhaps if we find other possible users we can
> talk again about how best to support these.

does this offer functionality that is not available in the new PWM framework ?
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.embedded/3400
-mike
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