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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 04/11] pwm: add DT bindings documentation for atmel-hlcdc-pwm driver
On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:13:51AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 04:53:01PM +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> > From: Boris BREZILLON <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> >
> > The HLCDC IP available in some Atmel SoCs (i.e. sam9x5i.e. at91sam9n12,
> > at91sam9x5 family or sama5d3 family) provide a PWM device.
> >
> > The DT bindings used for this PWM device is following the default 3 cells
> > bindings described in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
> > ---
> > .../devicetree/bindings/pwm/atmel-hlcdc-pwm.txt | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/atmel-hlcdc-pwm.txt
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/atmel-hlcdc-pwm.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/atmel-hlcdc-pwm.txt
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000..86ad3e2
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/atmel-hlcdc-pwm.txt
> > @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
> > +Device-Tree bindings for Atmel's HLCDC (High LCD Controller) PWM driver
> > +
> > +The Atmel HLCDC PWM is subdevice of the HLCDC MFD device.
> > +See ../mfd/atmel-hlcdc.txt for more details.
> > +
> > +Required properties:
> > + - compatible: value should be one of the following:
> > + "atmel,hlcdc-pwm"
> > + - pinctr-names: the pin control state names. Should contain "default".
> > + - pinctrl-0: should contain the pinctrl states described by pinctrl
> > + default.
> > + - #pwm-cells: should be set to 3. This PWM chip use the default 3 cells
> > + bindings defined in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm.txt.
> > + The first cell encodes the PWM id (0 is the only acceptable value here,
> > + because the chip only provide one PWM).
> > + The second cell encodes the PWM period in nanoseconds.
> > + The third cell encodes the PWM flags (the only supported flag is
> > + PWM_POLARITY_INVERTED)
>
> Given that this already refers to the default 3 cells binding it doesn't
> need to repeat part of the contents of pwm.txt.

Given that pwm.txt states:

pwm-specifier : array of #pwm-cells specifying the given PWM
(controller specific)

I'd leave it here. Just because pwm.txt gives an example of a controller
specific meaning for the pwm cells, I don't think we should rely on it
everywhere.

Mark.


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