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SubjectRe: [PATCH v8 15/26] pwm: jz4740: Add support for the JZ4725B
Hi,

Le ven. 14 déc. 2018 à 15:26, Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 02:50:20PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 9:42 PM Uwe Kleine-König
>> <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
>> > [Adding Linus Walleij to Cc:]
>> > On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 03:03:15PM +0100, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>> > > Le jeu. 13 déc. 2018 à 10:24, Uwe Kleine-König
>> > > <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> a écrit :
>> > > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 11:09:10PM +0100, Paul Cercueil wrote:
>> > > > > The PWM in the JZ4725B works the same as in the JZ4740,
>> except that
>> > > > > it
>> > > > > only has 6 channels available instead of 8.
>> > > >
>> > > > this driver is probed only from device tree? If yes, it might
>> be
>> > > > sensible to specify the number of PWMs there and get it from
>> there.
>> > > > There doesn't seem to be a generic binding for that, but
>> there are
>> > > > several drivers that could benefit from it. (This is a bigger
>> project
>> > > > though and shouldn't stop your patch. Still more as it
>> already got
>> > > > Thierry's ack.)
>> > >
>> > > I think there needs to be a proper guideline, as there doesn't
>> seem to be
>> > > a consensus about this. I learned from emails with Rob and
>> Linus (Walleij)
>> > > that I should not have in devicetree what I can deduce from the
>> compatible
>> > > string.
>> >
>> > I understood them a bit differently. It is ok to deduce things
>> from the
>> > compatible string. But if you define a generic property (say)
>> "num-pwms"
>> > that is used uniformly in most bindings this is ok, too. (And
>> then the
>> > two different devices could use the same compatible.)
>> >
>> > An upside of the generic "num-pwms" property is that the pwm core
>> could
>> > sanity check pwm phandles before passing them to the hardware
>> drivers.
>>
>> I don't know if this helps, but in GPIO we have "ngpios" which is
>> used to augment an existing block as to the number of lines actually
>> used with it.
>>
>> The typical case is that an ASIC engineer synthesize a block for
>> 32 GPIOs but only 12 of them are routed to external pads. So
>> we augment the behaviour of that driver to only use 12 of the
>> 32 lines.
>>
>> I guess using the remaining 20 lines "works" in a sense but they
>> have no practical use and will just bias electrons in the silicon
>> for no use.
>
> This looks very similar to the case under discussion.
>
>> So if the PWM case is something similar, then by all means add
>> num-pwms.
>
> .. or "npwms" to use the same nomenclature as the gpio binding?

If we're going to do something like this, should it be the drivers or
the core (within pwmchip_add) that checks for this "npwms" property?

> Best regards
> Uwe
>
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