Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Date | Wed, 1 Jul 2020 00:27:31 +0300 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6] gpio: pca953x: Add Maxim MAX7313 PWM support |
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 3:45 PM Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > > I can't find anything in any of the previous threads. What was the > > reason to not go the MFD way here? > > MFD doesn't work because the different "modes" are not orthogonal. So > this is not a single device that provides several functions at the same > time that can be used in parallel.
Did I get this correctly that it's either *all* pins are GPIO or *all* are PWM?
Otherwise, it fits from my point of view.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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