Hello, Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevche...@gmail.com> wrote on Wed, 1 Jul 2020 00:27:31 +0300:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 3:45 PM Uwe Kleine-König > <u.kleine-koe...@pengutronix.de> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 11:13:31AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > > > I can't find anything in any of the previous threads. What was the > > > reason to not go the MFD way here? > > > > MFD doesn't work because the different "modes" are not orthogonal. So > > this is not a single device that provides several functions at the same > > time that can be used in parallel. > > Did I get this correctly that it's either *all* pins are GPIO or *all* are > PWM? > > Otherwise, it fits from my point of view. > Sorry for not being clear in the first place : the choice between pure GPIO and PWM is on a per output basis. As Uwe said, the two "modes" are not orthogonal hence the MFD does not fit here IMHO. Thanks, Miquèl
