Re: [PATCH] pwm: lp3943: Dynamically allocate pwm chip base

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Fri Oct 30 2020 - 16:21:06 EST


On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 07:11:35PM +0530, Lokesh Vutla wrote:
> When there are other pwm controllers enabled along with pwm-lp3943,
> pwm-lp3942 is failing to probe with -EEXIST error. This is because
> other pwm controller is probed first and assigned pwmchip 0 and
> pwm-lp3943 is requesting for 0 again. In order to avoid this, assign the
> chip base with -1, so that id is dynamically allocated.
>
> Fixes: af66b3c0934e ("pwm: Add LP3943 PWM driver")
> Signed-off-by: Lokesh Vutla <lokeshvutla@xxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-könig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

With this patch applied only the pwm-ab8500 driver is left not using -1
for base.

Best regards
Uwe

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