Re: [RFC v4 0/4] StarFive's Pulse Width Modulation driver support

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Mon Aug 28 2023 - 03:17:32 EST


On 28/08/2023 09:12, Hal Feng wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 16:06:12 +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 04:13:24PM +0800, William Qiu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This patchset adds initial rudimentary support for the StarFive
>>> Pulse Width Modulation controller driver. And this driver will
>>> be used in StarFive's VisionFive 2 board.The first patch add
>>> Documentations for the device and Patch 2 adds device probe for
>>> the module.
>>>
>>> Changes v3->v4:
>>> - Rebased to v6.5rc7.
>>> - Sorted the header files in alphabetic order.
>>> - Changed iowrite32() to writel().
>>> - Added a way to turn off.
>>> - Moified polarity inversion implementation.
>>> - Added 7100 support.
>>> - Added dts patches.
>>> - Used the various helpers in linux/math.h.
>>> - Corrected formatting problems.
>>> - Renamed dtbinding to 'starfive,jh7100-pwm.yaml'.
>>> - Dropped the redundant code.
>>>
>>> Changes v2->v3:
>>> - Fixed some formatting issues.
>>>
>>> Changes v1->v2:
>>> - Renamed the dt-binding 'pwm-starfive.yaml' to 'starfive,jh7110-pwm.yaml'.
>>> - Dropped the compatible's Items.
>>> - Dropped the unuse defines.
>>> - Modified the code to follow the Linux coding style.
>>> - Changed return value to dev_err_probe.
>>> - Dropped the unnecessary local variable.
>>>
>>> The patch series is based on v6.5rc7.
>>
>> Out of curiosity, why is this series still an RFC?
>
> There was no comments received in v4. So William resend it and
> request for comments.

The question was: why he requests for comments?

RFC means *it should not be merged, it is not ready*.

Best regards,
Krzysztof