Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-13 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Paul Mundt wrote: > > Your first version should have been to linux-embedded and linux-kernel. > > If you want to alert the linux-arm-kernel people to the fact that a > > discussion is going on in this area, then feel free to post a > > notification to the

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-11 Thread Matt Sealey
Jon Loeliger wrote: On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 09:04 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: Jon Smirl wrote: What do the device tree deities have to say about PWM support? Dunno. What lists are they on? :) Perhaps [EMAIL PROTECTED] too. I thought this was what ePAPR was for. Why would it need all that

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Jon Loeliger
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 09:04 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > > > What do the device tree deities have to say about PWM support? > > Dunno. What lists are they on? :) > Perhaps [EMAIL PROTECTED] too. jdl ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing lis

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
Paul Mundt wrote: >> Hasn't been a problem so far. I posted the first version of the code on >> l-a-k, >> and got some feedback on the pwm_device API and a lot of feedback on the way >> users wanted to use the API to realize applications. I incorporated all of >> it, >> and in this "release" I

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
Paul Mundt wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:03:34AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: >> Paul Mundt wrote: >>> This is likely because some of those lists are subscribers only, so cross >>> posting is poor form. It makes sense to keep the discussion in one place, >>> and to send notification messages wi

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Mundt
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:59:08AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > There isn't a lot of traffic on linux-embedded, and I'm not sure how many > people > who read linux-arm-kernel also read linuxppc-dev. Lkml's topic coverage is > huge, so I don't know how many hardcore embedded developers I would enc

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Mundt
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:03:34AM -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Paul Mundt wrote: > > This is likely because some of those lists are subscribers only, so cross > > posting is poor form. It makes sense to keep the discussion in one place, > > and to send notification messages with a pointer to the l

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Haavard Skinnemoen
Bill Gatliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Mundt wrote: > > This is likely because some of those lists are subscribers only, so cross > > posting is poor form. It makes sense to keep the discussion in one place, > > and to send notification messages with a pointer to the list archives to > > th

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Jon Smirl
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Bill Gatliff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Smirl wrote: > >> What do the device tree deities have to say about PWM support? > > Dunno. What lists are they on? :) They are on linuxppc-dev. Device trees would be used on powerpc to control the initial setup of t

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
Jon Smirl wrote: > What do the device tree deities have to say about PWM support? Dunno. What lists are they on? :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/lin

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
Paul Mundt wrote: > This is likely because some of those lists are subscribers only, so cross > posting is poor form. It makes sense to keep the discussion in one place, > and to send notification messages with a pointer to the list archives to > the other lists so folks can jump in if they really

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
David Woodhouse wrote: > Subscriber-only lists are broken. Just don't use them. You owe me a new keyboard! :) b.g. -- Bill Gatliff [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-de

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Bill Gatliff
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > Were did you actually sent them to? Apparently you sent them to each mailing > list (at least linux-embedded and linuxppc-dev) _separately_ (or using bcc). I sent them separately to linux-embedded, linuxppc-dev, and linux-arm-kernel. Those three groups seemed to hav

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Mundt
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:00:09AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Bill Gatliff wrote: > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:43 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > > >> This series proposes a "generic PWM" driver API. > > >> > > >> This proposed API is mot

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 18:36 +0900, Paul Mundt wrote: > This is likely because some of those lists are subscribers only, so cross > posting is poor form. It makes sense to keep the discussion in one place, > and to send notification messages with a pointer to the list archives to > the other lists s

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-10 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 9 Oct 2008, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:43 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > >> This series proposes a "generic PWM" driver API. > >> > >> This proposed API is motivated by the author's need to support > >> pluggable devices; a secondary objec

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-09 Thread Jon Smirl
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 23:06 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: >> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:43 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: >> >> This series proposes a "generic PWM" driver API. >> >> >> >>

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 23:06 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:43 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > >> This series proposes a "generic PWM" driver API. > >> > >> This proposed API is motivated by the author's need to support > >> pluggable devices; a

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-09 Thread Bill Gatliff
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:43 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: >> This series proposes a "generic PWM" driver API. >> >> This proposed API is motivated by the author's need to support >> pluggable devices; a secondary objective is to consolidate the >> existing PWM implement

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 11:43 -0500, Bill Gatliff wrote: > This series proposes a "generic PWM" driver API. > > This proposed API is motivated by the author's need to support > pluggable devices; a secondary objective is to consolidate the > existing PWM implementations behind an agreeable, consiste

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-09 Thread Bill Gatliff
Matt Sealey wrote: > I'm all for this if you manage it. > > The code and API looks good. We have some projects which involve PWM > and having a nice clean standard API like the GPIO API was on the > wishlist.. this will make it so much easier to do fan control, > backlight control, drive motors, a

Re: [RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-09 Thread Matt Sealey
I'm all for this if you manage it. The code and API looks good. We have some projects which involve PWM and having a nice clean standard API like the GPIO API was on the wishlist.. this will make it so much easier to do fan control, backlight control, drive motors, audio output, and the billion o

[RFC 0/6] Proposal for a Generic PWM Device API

2008-10-08 Thread Bill Gatliff
This series proposes a "generic PWM" driver API. This proposed API is motivated by the author's need to support pluggable devices; a secondary objective is to consolidate the existing PWM implementations behind an agreeable, consistent, redundancy-reducing interface. The code included in this pat