From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755203Ab1A2Vvt (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:51:49 -0500 Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de ([92.198.50.35]:38183 "EHLO metis.ext.pengutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754882Ab1A2Vvs (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:51:48 -0500 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 22:51:41 +0100 From: Wolfram Sang To: Jean Delvare Cc: Sascha Hauer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Eric Miao , Ben Dooks , Kukjin Kim , Lars-Peter Clausen , Hemanth V , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Uwe Kleine-Koenig , Shawn Guo Subject: Re: [RFC] add pwmlib support Message-ID: <20110129215141.GA3493@pengutronix.de> References: <1296217283-14531-1-git-send-email-s.hauer@pengutronix.de> <20110129213821.0e51dc32@endymion.delvare> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FCuugMFkClbJLl1L" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110129213821.0e51dc32@endymion.delvare> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:6f8:1178:2:215:17ff:fe12:23b0 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: wsa@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.ext.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > code is inspired by gpiolib support and tested using the backlight pwm ^^^^^^^^^ > So I believe that hwmon drivers are out of scope for pwmlib. Which > makes me wonder what you intend to do with pwmlib (back to my first > question...) as the only use I know of for PWM signals in computers is > for fan control. It was meant for backlight control (was mentioned very indirectly). I also pointed him to Bill's implementation, too. Regards, Wolfram --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | Wolfram Sang | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1Ei+0ACgkQD27XaX1/VRvjkACeOhJonBEZQX8U+ihKtiMjQT/U IfAAoMdZiOrAOvuH1Iv6ZKNYoT+VhhTM =ROYN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FCuugMFkClbJLl1L--