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This set of changes improve some aspects of the atomic API as well as make use of this new API in the regulator framework to allow properly dealing with critical regulators controlled by a PWM. Aside from that there's a bunch of updates and cleanups for existing drivers, as well as the addition of new drivers for the Broadcom iProc, STMPE and ChromeOS EC controllers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQI2BAABCAAgBQJXpLFKGRx0aGllcnJ5LnJlZGluZ0BnbWFpbC5jb20ACgkQ3SOs 138+s6E2Nw/9FggtgYlVQRS5lzwTKxQI/5HMlOfdyH84S76fUS8uAxvEsZvyHXZ7 NiwCJMkmMqPHMlrfuXacs4nueKz3jvy8csaffH5T2yHf0ZPGmkxBsdX97rvQp3z/ WTUXX8vo8fiEPQSXQOUzIYk10s7CBO2094uL8FBqfYeSySY3Ti35SpmZSQKVd1LS A1rR/qRgNbIlhI7+L5CotdrNMkHXqHZIHDyXO1dWBDVL+3MU3IPpB//J/WjU/OMs 5MHEtTr7943s8LQYhM1p5PFDn8ehe31L1quSswmMTLuepPrTUjD31476VYW8p8gg lzOv5JF5b8Rkw0B+4vDC0z/OPZA47tg8DfiS9Sa1SrCGxslOH7pvI7m9dV89FOc2 /hA1n048jBhIrHPylXZ+hUPKNM0WTwFrHVxROgtEb6/wtYskgOFGQrYKpD4FtH+j zqXxvCRMX4ZLLXy2QO4GAW3dv51pLjiM2yxVWtM1lWFWiKKvRoqHiFcnmCJJwQ4T NXUPnyt+G/GCtpVHlMtHW9YszJ650ECt+H8I1EhuGLkpOXncCPdmw34oR1wSmMi3 +1yjCvZV8bNJLt2GQDpoFEUc1dqY6g/SLqm9sz+W69QYA0oDt9JpFK+RFw118282 EX24GT9+PYe0kMt1WWopjHeFZ+6HhsG/ODwOUOaG/8kp6qZLB4EKP9k= =TdEI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Merge tag 'pwm/for-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/thierry.reding/linux-pwm Pull pwm updates from Thierry Reding: "This set of changes improve some aspects of the atomic API as well as make use of this new API in the regulator framework to allow properly dealing with critical regulators controlled by a PWM. Aside from that there's a bunch of updates and cleanups for existing drivers, as well as the addition of new drivers for the Broadcom iProc, STMPE and ChromeOS EC controllers" * tag 'pwm/for-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/thierry.reding/linux-pwm: (44 commits) regulator: pwm: Document pwm-dutycycle-unit and pwm-dutycycle-range regulator: pwm: Support extra continuous mode cases pwm: Add ChromeOS EC PWM driver dt-bindings: pwm: Add binding for ChromeOS EC PWM mfd: cros_ec: Add EC_PWM function definitions mfd: cros_ec: Add cros_ec_cmd_xfer_status() helper pwm: atmel: Use of_device_get_match_data() pwm: atmel: Fix checkpatch warnings pwm: atmel: Fix disabling of PWM channels dt-bindings: pwm: Add R-Car H3 device tree bindings pwm: rcar: Use ARCH_RENESAS pwm: tegra: Add support for Tegra186 dt-bindings: pwm: tegra: Add compatible string for Tegra186 pwm: tegra: Avoid overflow when calculating duty cycle pwm: tegra: Allow 100 % duty cycle pwm: tegra: Add support for reset control pwm: tegra: Rename mmio_base to regs pwm: tegra: Remove useless padding pwm: tegra: Drop NUM_PWM macro pwm: lpc32xx: Set PWM_PIN_LEVEL bit to default value ... |
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