Re: [PATCH v4 1/1] pwm: pca9685: fix gpio-only operation.

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Thu Apr 20 2017 - 11:55:47 EST


On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 06:07:37PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Sven Van Asbroeck <thesven73@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Taking above into consideration perhaps sleep is not quite good word
> >> at all. By functional description it sounds like latency tolerance to
> >> me.
> >
> > That's true, but the bit description in the chip datasheet is 'SLEEP'.
> > (its real function is suspend/low power, but the chip designers called
> > it 'SLEEP')
> >
> > Calling the bit/function something else is likely to confuse someone
> > who's reading the driver in combination with the chip datasheet.
>
> Looking again into the patch I have noticed:
> 1) word 'sleep' is used as a part of a function name;
> 2) int sleep is used as binary value.
>
> Thus, I would suggest: int sleep -> bool enable (or alike).
>
> Would we agree on that?

That sounds good to me. I guess it will have to be an incremental patch
since this one has already been applied.