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Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with recent changes

From	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with recent changes
Date	2016-06-10 15:20 +0200
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On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 03:51:52PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2016 at 10:21:35AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > We're renaming the 'st,pwm-num-chan' binding to 'st,pwm-num-devs' to
> > be more inline with the naming conventions of the subsystem.  Where
> > we used to treat each line as a channel, the PWM convention is to
> > describe them as devices.
> 
> That's all linux implementation details and you are breaking 
> compatibility.

While it's true that the API calls channels struct pwm_device, that's
primarily for historical reasons. It's completely fine, and in fact most
drivers already do exactly that, to internally refer to channels as
channels.

Thierry

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[PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with recent changes Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-06-08 11:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with  recent changes Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2016-06-08 23:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with  recent changes Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-06-09 13:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with  recent changes Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 15:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with  recent changes Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-06-10 16:10 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with  recent changes Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 17:00 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with  recent changes Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2016-06-10 17:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 20/20] dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings with  recent changes Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> - 2016-06-10 15:20 +0200

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