Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] bus/ti-pwmss: move TI PWMSS driver from PWM to bus subsystem

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Thu Oct 17 2019 - 16:58:10 EST


On Sun, 8 Sep 2019 12:44:48 -0700
Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Jonathan Cameron <jic23@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [190908 11:16]:
> > On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 17:02:45 +0200
> > Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Sep 01, 2019 at 05:58:22PM -0500, David Lechner wrote:
> > > > The TI PWMSS driver is a simple bus driver for providing power
> > > > power management for the PWM peripherals on TI AM33xx SoCs, namely
> > > > eCAP, eHRPWM and eQEP. The eQEP is a counter rather than a PWM, so
> > > > it does not make sense to have the bus driver in the PWM subsystem
> > > > since the PWMSS is not exclusive to PWM devices.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >
> > > > v3 changes:
> > > > - none
> > > > v2 changes:
> > > > - new patch
> > > >
> > > > drivers/bus/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
> > > > drivers/bus/Makefile | 1 +
> > > > drivers/{pwm/pwm-tipwmss.c => bus/ti-pwmss.c} | 0
> > > > drivers/pwm/Kconfig | 9 ---------
> > > > drivers/pwm/Makefile | 1 -
> > > > 5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > > > rename drivers/{pwm/pwm-tipwmss.c => bus/ti-pwmss.c} (100%)
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Do we need an immutable branch for these precursor patches to the
> > driver addition? It's not going to make 5.4 via my tree as cutting it
> > too fine so we'll be in the position of holding these in a non obvious
> > tree for a whole cycle.
>
> Sure an immutable branch would be nice in case of unlikely
> dts file conflicts. And yeah no need to try to rush to v5.4.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony
immutable branch created based on 5.4-rc1 at:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio.git/log/?h=ib-ti-eqep-5.4-rc1

I'll pull it into IIO in a few minutes as have one more of these
to do at the same time. Includes patches 1-4 of this series.

Thanks,

Jonathan