On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 09:15:08AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote: > * Ryan Mallon wrote: > > On 07/02/12 02:19, Thierry Reding wrote: > > > The total maximum number of PWM devices is currently fixed to 64, but > > > can easily be made configurable via Kconfig. > > > > It would be better to make the code handle arbitrary numbers of PWMs. A > > Kconfig knob becomes annoying when you have more than one platform > > configured into the kernel. > > AFAICT handling an arbitrary number of PWMs will only be possible once we get > rid of the global namespace and therefore should be postponed for later. I > may be wrong, though, so if anybody can point me in the right direction I'm > perfectly happy to change that in this series. > > > > The patch is incomplete in that it doesn't convert any existing drivers > > > that are now broken. > > > > Does this patch actually break the drivers in terms of not building or > > running? If so, can this patch series be reworked a bit to allow the old > > PWM framework to be used until all of the drivers are converted? > > That sentence is misleading. Since the new framework implements the exact > same API as the drivers, any unconverted drivers will still work unless they > are built within the same kernel as the framework. I have a series porting all in kernel drivers to this framework. I can follow up on this series once it's clear we want to go this way. With this series the way will be free to move to a better pwm matching without a global pwm index because the drivers won't be affected by this change anymore. Sascha -- Pengutronix e.K. | | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | Peiner Str. 6-8, 31137 Hildesheim, Germany | Phone: +49-5121-206917-0 | Amtsgericht Hildesheim, HRA 2686 | Fax: +49-5121-206917-5555 | -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
