This commit moves the Blackfin PWM driver to the drivers/pwm sub-
directory and converts it to register with the new PWM framework.
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
This commit adds a generic PWM framework driver for the PWFM controller
found on NVIDIA Tegra SoCs. The driver is based on code from the
Chromium kernel tree and was originally written by Gary King (NVIDIA)
and later modified by Simon Que (Chromium).
Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
This patch adds framework support for PWM (pulse width modulation) devices.
The is a barebone PWM API already in the kernel under include/linux/pwm.h,
but it does not allow for multiple drivers as each of them implements the
pwm_*() functions.
There are other PWM framework patches around from Bill Gatliff. Unlike
his framework this one does not change the existing API for PWMs so that
this framework can act as a drop in replacement for the existing API.
Why another framework?
Several people argue that there should not be another framework for PWMs
but they should be integrated into one of the existing frameworks like led
or hwmon. Unlike these frameworks the PWM framework is agnostic to the
purpose of the PWM. In fact, a PWM can drive a LED, but this makes the
LED framework a user of a PWM, like already done in leds-pwm.c. The gpio
framework also is not suitable for PWMs. Every gpio could be turned into
a PWM using timer based toggling, but on the other hand not every PWM hardware
device can be turned into a gpio due to the lack of hardware capabilities.
This patch does not try to improve the PWM API yet, this could be done in
subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Kurt Van Dijck <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
[thierry.reding@avionic-design.de: fixup typos, kerneldoc comments]
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Thierry Reding