Re: [PATCH v2 01/16] drivers: pwm: core: use a single of xlate function

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Mon Jan 15 2018 - 15:27:39 EST


On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Claudiu Beznea
<Claudiu.Beznea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> For this driver, the PWM bindings were changed (I did a grep by "google,cros-ec-pwm"
> and located only:
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-gru-kevin.dts
> arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-gru.dtsi
> files) and changed the bindings in this series, as follows, patch 7 from this series:
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-gru-kevin.dts b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-gru-kevin.dts
> index 0384e3121f18..0c790ec387eb 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-gru-kevin.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3399-gru-kevin.dts
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
>
> backlight: backlight {
> compatible = "pwm-backlight";
> - pwms = <&cros_ec_pwm 1>;
> + pwms = <&cros_ec_pwm 1 65535>;

This shows an breakage for user. The old PWM device tree sources or
binaries should work independently on what changes you did to kernel.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko