On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 02:13:38PM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote:

There have been discussions before re: GPIOs and interrupts that creating
a global namespace for them was a mistake. This new PWM API does the same
thing. Is there an issue here?

It is an issue with the PWM API but as the PWM API already exists
(without a generic implementation) it's kind of out of scope to fix that
- it'd be a big churn to do along with providing standard code.