Commit 321a7cea authored by Yoshihiro Shimoda's avatar Yoshihiro Shimoda Committed by Thierry Reding

pwm: Add power management descriptions

This patch adds power management descriptions that consumers should
implement it.
Signed-off-by: default avatarYoshihiro Shimoda <yoshihiro.shimoda.uh@renesas.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSimon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
parent 4ae42ce7
......@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ period). struct pwm_args contains 2 fields (period and polarity) and should
be used to set the initial PWM config (usually done in the probe function
of the PWM user). PWM arguments are retrieved with pwm_get_args().
All consumers should really be reconfiguring the PWM upon resume as
appropriate. This is the only way to ensure that everything is resumed in
the proper order.
Using PWMs with the sysfs interface
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......@@ -141,6 +145,9 @@ The implementation of ->get_state() (a method used to retrieve initial PWM
state) is also encouraged for the same reason: letting the PWM user know
about the current PWM state would allow him to avoid glitches.
Drivers should not implement any power management. In other words,
consumers should implement it as described in the "Using PWMs" section.
Locking
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