tree 15291a08d3ec44e8ab81c44370e1ac2bbb366ec5
parent 0c2498f1660878339350bea8d18550b1b87ca055
author Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> 1323857543 +0100
committer Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> 1339757812 +0200

pwm: Allow chips to support multiple PWMs

Many PWM controllers provide access to more than a single PWM output and
may even share some resource among them. Allowing a PWM chip to provide
multiple PWM devices enables better sharing of those resources. As a
side-effect this change allows easy integration with the device tree
where a given PWM can be looked up based on the PWM chip's phandle and a
corresponding index.

This commit modifies the PWM core to support multiple PWMs per struct
pwm_chip. It achieves this in a similar way to how gpiolib works, by
allowing PWM ranges to be requested dynamically (pwm_chip.base == -1) or
starting at a given offset (pwm_chip.base >= 0). A chip specifies how
many PWMs it controls using the npwm member. Each of the functions in
the pwm_ops structure gets an additional argument that specified the PWM
number (it can be converted to a per-chip index by subtracting the
chip's base).

The total maximum number of PWM devices is currently fixed to 1024 while
the data is actually stored in a radix tree, thus saving resources if
not all of them are used.

Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
[eric@eukrea.com: fix error handling in pwmchip_add]
Signed-off-by: Eric Bénard <eric@eukrea.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>