Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with recent changes

[Rob Herring]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> We're renaming the 'st,pwm-num-chan' binding to 'st,pwm-num-devs' to
> be more inline with the naming conventions of the subsystem.  Where
> we used to treat each line as a channel, the PWM convention is to
> describe them as devices.

That's all linux implementation details and you are breaking 
compatibility.

> The second documentation adaption entails adding support for PWM
> capture devices.  A new clock is required as well as an IRQ line.
> We're also adding a new property similar to the one described
> above, but for capture channels.  Typically, there will be less
> capture channels than PWM-out, since all channels have the latter
> capability, but only some have capture support.

Humm, sounds like all of this should be implied from compatible strings.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-st.txt | 10 ++++++----
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-st.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-st.txt
> index 84d2fb8..b09f3a4 100644
> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-st.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pwm/pwm-st.txt
> @@ -13,13 +13,14 @@ Required parameters:
>  - pinctrl-0: 		List of phandles pointing to pin configuration nodes
>  			for PWM module.
>  			For Pinctrl properties, please refer to [1].
> -- clock-names: 		Set to "pwm".
> +- clock-names: 		Valid entries are "pwm" and/or "capture".
>  - clocks: 		phandle of the clock used by the PWM module.
>  			For Clk properties, please refer to [2].
> +- interrupts:		IRQ for the Capture device
>  
>  Optional properties:
> -- st,pwm-num-chan:	Number of available channels. If not passed, the driver
> -			will consider single channel by default.
> +- st,pwm-num-devs:	Number of available PWM channels.  Default is 0.
> +- st,capture-num-devs:	Number of available Capture channels.  Default is 0.
>  
>  [1] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/pinctrl/pinctrl-bindings.txt
>  [2] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
> @@ -37,5 +38,6 @@ pwm1: pwm@fe510000 {
>  		     &pinctrl_pwm1_chan3_default>;
>  	clocks = <&clk_sysin>;
>  	clock-names = "pwm";
> -	st,pwm-num-chan = <4>;
> +	st,pwm-num-devs = <4>;
> +	st,capture-num-devs = <2>;
>  };
> -- 
> 2.8.3
>