Hello, this series eventually makes the "state" parameter of pwm_apply_state() point to a const value. Two drivers (sun4i and rockchip) modfied the contents here with good intentions, but I believe that it does more harm than good. See the commit log of the last patch for a more detailed reasoning. The first two patches fix the two offending drivers to not modify the state variable, then in the last patch the prototype of pwm_apply_state() is changed to make the requirement to not change state obvious. Note that the prototype of pwm_apply_state() already had a const in include/linux/pwm.h for the !IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PWM) case. Compared to v1 sent earlier today, the sun4i patch is new. I missed that there was a non-trivial change when preparing the patches and it was folded into the last patch. Thanks to Thierry for spotting this. The end result is unmodified. Best regards Uwe Uwe Kleine-König (3): pwm: rockchip: Don't update the state for the caller of pwm_apply_state() pwm: sun4i: Don't update the state for the caller of pwm_apply_state() pwm: ensure pwm_apply_state() doesn't modify the state argument drivers/pwm/core.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel-hlcdc.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-bcm-iproc.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-cros-ec.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-hibvt.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-imx27.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-lpss.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-meson.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-rcar.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-rockchip.c | 10 ++-------- drivers/pwm/pwm-stm32-lp.c | 2 +- drivers/pwm/pwm-sun4i.c | 10 ++-------- drivers/pwm/pwm-zx.c | 2 +- include/linux/pwm.h | 4 ++-- 15 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-) -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ Linux-rockchip mailing list Linux-rockchip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-rockchip