Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:36:35 +0100 | From | Peter Ujfalusi <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] gpio: New driver for GPO emulation using PWM generators |
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hi,
On 11/26/2012 11:30 AM, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > The difference here is that the LED, backlight, etc are all different > physical devices begin driven by the pwm pin, so it makes sense to have a > device tree node for them, while using the pwm as gpio is just a different > function of the same physical pin. So in a sense the pwm controller also > becomes a gpio controller. I like the idea of the pwm core automatically > instantiating a pwm-gpo device if it sees a gpio-controller property in the > pwm device devicetree node.
OK, fair enough. I will go with the plan I described in the first mail for the GPIO use of PWM.
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