17 May, 2016

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21 May, 2014

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28 Apr, 2014

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  • The PWM subsystem defines normal and inversed PWM signal polarity in an
    unambiguous way. In addition to the documentation in the linux/pwm.h
    header file, add a paragraph in Documentation/pwm.txt because people are
    likely to look there for guidance.

    Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding

    Thierry Reding
     

24 Oct, 2013

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21 Jun, 2013

1 commit

  • Add a simple sysfs interface to the generic PWM framework.

    /sys/class/pwm/
    `-- pwmchipN/ for each PWM chip
    |-- export (w/o) ask the kernel to export a PWM channel
    |-- npwm (r/o) number of PWM channels in this PWM chip
    |-- pwmX/ for each exported PWM channel
    | |-- duty_cycle (r/w) duty cycle (in nanoseconds)
    | |-- enable (r/w) enable/disable PWM
    | |-- period (r/w) period (in nanoseconds)
    | `-- polarity (r/w) polarity of PWM (normal/inversed)
    `-- unexport (w/o) return a PWM channel to the kernel

    Based on work by Lars Poeschel.

    Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten
    Cc: Thierry Reding
    Cc: Lars Poeschel
    Cc: Ryan Mallon
    Cc: Rob Landley
    Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding

    H Hartley Sweeten
     

10 Sep, 2012

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15 Jun, 2012

3 commits

  • In order to get rid of the global namespace for PWM devices, this commit
    provides an alternative method, similar to that of the regulator or
    clock frameworks, for registering a static mapping for PWM devices. This
    works by providing a table with a provider/consumer map in the board
    setup code.

    With the new pwm_get() and pwm_put() functions available, usage of
    pwm_request() and pwm_free() becomes deprecated.

    Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo
    Reviewed-by: Mark Brown
    Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding

    Thierry Reding
     
  • Many PWM controllers provide access to more than a single PWM output and
    may even share some resource among them. Allowing a PWM chip to provide
    multiple PWM devices enables better sharing of those resources. As a
    side-effect this change allows easy integration with the device tree
    where a given PWM can be looked up based on the PWM chip's phandle and a
    corresponding index.

    This commit modifies the PWM core to support multiple PWMs per struct
    pwm_chip. It achieves this in a similar way to how gpiolib works, by
    allowing PWM ranges to be requested dynamically (pwm_chip.base == -1) or
    starting at a given offset (pwm_chip.base >= 0). A chip specifies how
    many PWMs it controls using the npwm member. Each of the functions in
    the pwm_ops structure gets an additional argument that specified the PWM
    number (it can be converted to a per-chip index by subtracting the
    chip's base).

    The total maximum number of PWM devices is currently fixed to 1024 while
    the data is actually stored in a radix tree, thus saving resources if
    not all of them are used.

    Reviewed-by: Mark Brown
    Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo
    [eric@eukrea.com: fix error handling in pwmchip_add]
    Signed-off-by: Eric Bénard
    Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding

    Thierry Reding
     
  • This patch adds framework support for PWM (pulse width modulation) devices.

    The is a barebone PWM API already in the kernel under include/linux/pwm.h,
    but it does not allow for multiple drivers as each of them implements the
    pwm_*() functions.

    There are other PWM framework patches around from Bill Gatliff. Unlike
    his framework this one does not change the existing API for PWMs so that
    this framework can act as a drop in replacement for the existing API.

    Why another framework?

    Several people argue that there should not be another framework for PWMs
    but they should be integrated into one of the existing frameworks like led
    or hwmon. Unlike these frameworks the PWM framework is agnostic to the
    purpose of the PWM. In fact, a PWM can drive a LED, but this makes the
    LED framework a user of a PWM, like already done in leds-pwm.c. The gpio
    framework also is not suitable for PWMs. Every gpio could be turned into
    a PWM using timer based toggling, but on the other hand not every PWM hardware
    device can be turned into a gpio due to the lack of hardware capabilities.

    This patch does not try to improve the PWM API yet, this could be done in
    subsequent patches.

    Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer
    Acked-by: Kurt Van Dijck
    Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke
    Reviewed-by: Mark Brown
    Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo
    [thierry.reding@avionic-design.de: fixup typos, kerneldoc comments]
    Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding

    Sascha Hauer