[v14 0/2] Support pwm driver for aspeed ast26xx

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Wed Dec 8 08:19:55 AEDT 2021


On Tue, Dec 07, 2021 at 06:45:47AM +0000, Joel Stanley wrote:
> Hi Billy,
> 
> On Tue, 30 Nov 2021 at 05:58, Billy Tsai <billy_tsai at aspeedtech.com> wrote:
> >
> > The legacy driver of aspeed pwm is binding with tach controller and it
> > doesn't follow the pwm framworks usage. In addition, the pwm register
> > usage of the 6th generation of ast26xx has drastic change. So these
> > patch serials add the new aspeed pwm driver to fix up the problem above.
> 
> Sorry for not taking a look earlier. Well done on making it this far.
> 
> There's a few things that need to be addressed before merging this.
> 
> Firstly, the bindings need fixing up. I think these should be the one
> file. The device tree bindings are supposed to describe the hardware,
> and it doesn't make sense to separate them out just because we plan on
> using two subsystems to implement the functionality.
> 
> Rob, please chime in if you would prefer something different.

I prefer to see a common binding for fans which I said multiple times 
on this series. As the same thing keeps getting posted, I've stopped 
looking at this one.

Rob


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