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

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Oct 10 16:02:23 EST 2008


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 secondary objective is to consolidate the
> >> existing PWM implementations behind an agreeable, consistent,
> >> redundancy-reducing interface.
> > 
> >  .../...
> > 
> > You should send your patches to the main linux kernel list !
> 
> Perhaps.  But it seemed more relevant to this crowd, and the linux-embedded
> crowd, and the linux-arm-kernel crowd.

Sure but if you want then applied, you probably still need lkml and
andrew.

> At the very least, it made sense to present it in this sort of venue first.
> Given that it's a "global" API proposal, I suppose I'll have to run it by lkml
> at some point--- unless one of the aforementioned groups can mainline it themselves.

For review and comments, sure.

Cheers,





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