Re: [PATCH v4 13/14] pwm: jz4740: Let the pinctrl driver configure the pins

On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 10:42:43PM +0200, Paul Cercueil wrote:

Now that the JZ4740 and similar SoCs have a pinctrl driver, we rely on
the pins being properly configured before the driver probes.

One inherent problem of this new approach is that the pinctrl framework
does not allow us to configure each pin on demand, when the various PWM
channels are requested or released. For instance, the PWM channels can
be configured from sysfs, which would require all PWM pins to be configured
properly beforehand for the PWM function, eventually causing conflicts
with other platform or board drivers.

The proper solution here would be to modify the pwm-jz4740 driver to
handle only one PWM channel, and create an instance of this driver
for each one of the 8 PWM channels. Then, it could use the pinctrl
framework to dynamically configure the PWM pin it controls.

Until this can be done, the only jz4740 board supported upstream
(Qi lb60) can configure all of its connected PWM pins in PWM function
mode, since those are not used by other drivers nor by GPIOs on the
board.

Signed-off-by: Paul Cercueil <paul@crapouillou.net>
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 drivers/pwm/pwm-jz4740.c | 29 -----------------------------
 1 file changed, 29 deletions(-)

Assuming that you want to take this through the pinctrl tree along with
the remainder of the series:

Acked-by: Thierry Reding <redacted>