Thierry and Boris, On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 12:12:12PM +0200, Heiko St?bner wrote: >> Hi Thierry, >> >> Am Montag, 21. September 2015, 11:33:17 schrieb Boris Brezillon: >> > Hello, >> > >> > This series adds support for atomic PWM update, or IOW, the capability >> > to update all the parameters of a PWM device (enabled/disabled, period, >> > duty and polarity) in one go. >> >> is anything more blocking this series? It's now sitting on the lists for >> nearly a month and everybody seems happy with it, so it would be really nice >> to have in mainline :-) . >> >> Especially as this also makes it possible for Rockchip Chromebooks to actually >> control the logic-regulator that is implemented as pwm-regulator there. > > Last time I tried to put this into linux-next I got immediately > bombarded by a number of build failures, so I backed things out. The > current plan is to give this another try after v4.4-rc1. We're now into the 4.5 timeframe. Does anyone have a concrete set of things that need to happen before this patch series makes it into mainline? >From searching I see that the latest version of this series is v4 and there are a smattering of comments on the 24-patch series. Presumably a v5 needs to be posted to address those things. ...but it looks like the big sticking point is that Boris is waiting for a response to his questions in <https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7622881/>. Thierry: can you give Boris some direction for what else he needs to do? We need to come up with _some_ solution since this series gets us much better support for PWM regulators. Without this series or some other solution, PWM regulators aren't usable in mainline on any system that uses them for system-critical rails. Nearly all Rockchip reference boards and shipping devices uses a PWM regulator for the system-critidal "logic" rail. That means any patches which need to change this rail in Linux are blocked. If there's already been off-list discussion and Boris already knows what the next steps are then my apologies and I'll wait patiently for the next series. ;) Thanks! -Doug
