From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Chris Packham <Chris.Packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>,
"jdelvare@suse.com" <jdelvare@suse.com>,
"robh@kernel.org" <robh@kernel.org>,
"krzk+dt@kernel.org" <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
"conor+dt@kernel.org" <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
"linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org" <linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org>,
"devicetree@vger.kernel.org" <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: hwmon: Document adt7475 PWM initial duty cycle
Date: Thu, 9 May 2024 20:36:10 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94c843e2-4415-4786-bfd4-a77fdbbfab07@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d11093bb-230b-4918-a8cd-4f4eb760ccf3@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Chris,
On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 06:19:12PM +0000, Chris Packham wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
>
> On 9/05/24 19:06, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 08/05/2024 23:55, Chris Packham wrote:
> >> Add documentation for the pwm-initial-duty-cycle and
> >> pwm-initial-frequency properties. These allow the starting state of the
> >> PWM outputs to be set to cater for hardware designs where undesirable
> >> amounts of noise is created by the default hardware state.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
> >> ---
> >>
> >> Notes:
> >> Changes in v2:
> >> - Document 0 as a valid value (leaves hardware as-is)
> >>
> >> .../devicetree/bindings/hwmon/adt7475.yaml | 27 ++++++++++++++++++-
> >> 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/adt7475.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/adt7475.yaml
> >> index 051c976ab711..97deda082b4a 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/adt7475.yaml
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/adt7475.yaml
> >> @@ -51,6 +51,30 @@ properties:
> >> enum: [0, 1]
> >> default: 1
> >>
> >> + adi,pwm-initial-duty-cycle:
> >> + description: |
> >> + Configures the initial duty cycle for the PWM outputs. The hardware
> >> + default is 100% but this may cause unwanted fan noise at startup. Set
> >> + this to a value from 0 (0% duty cycle) to 255 (100% duty cycle).
> >> + $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-array
> >> + minItems: 3
> >> + maxItems: 3
> >> + items:
> >> + minimum: 0
> >> + maximum: 255
> >> + default: 255
> >> +
> >> + adi,pwm-initial-frequency:
> > Frequency usually has some units, so use appropriate unit suffix and
> > drop $ref. Maybe that's just target-rpm property?
> >
> > But isn't this duplicating previous property? This is fan controller,
> > not PWM provider (in any case you miss proper $refs to pwm.yaml or
> > fan-common.yaml), so the only thing you initially want to configure is
> > the fan rotation, not specific PWM waveform. If you you want to
> > configure specific PWM waveform, then it's a PWM provider... but it is
> > not... Confused.
>
> There's two things going on here. There's a PWM duty cycle which is
> configurable from 0% to 100%. It might be nice if this was expressed as
> a percentage instead of 0-255 but I went with the latter because that's
> how the sysfs ABI for the duty cycle works.
>
> The frequency (which I'll call adi,pwm-initial-frequency-hz in v3)
> affects how that duty cycle is presented to the fans. So you could still
> have a duty cycle of 50% at any frequency. What frequency is best
> depends on the kind of fans being used. In my particular case the lower
> frequencies end up with the fans oscillating annoyingly so I use the
> highest setting.
>
My udnerstanding is that we are supposed to use standard pwm provider
properties. The property description is provider specicic, so I think
we can pretty much just make it up.
Essentially you'd first define a pwm provider which defines all the
pwm parameters needed, such as pwm freqency, default duty cycle,
and flags such as PWM_POLARITY_INVERTED. You'd then add something like
pwms = <&pwm index frequency duty_cycle ... flags>;
to the node for each fan, and be done.
That doesn't mean that we would actually have to register the chip
as pwm provider with the pwm subsystem; all we would have to do is to
interpret the property values.
Hope thie helps,
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-10 3:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-08 21:55 [PATCH v2 0/2] hwmon: (adt7475) duty cycle configuration Chris Packham
2024-05-08 21:55 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] dt-bindings: hwmon: Document adt7475 PWM initial duty cycle Chris Packham
2024-05-09 7:06 ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2024-05-09 13:25 ` Guenter Roeck
2024-05-09 18:19 ` Chris Packham
2024-05-10 3:36 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2024-05-10 15:51 ` Chris Packham
2024-05-12 16:58 ` Guenter Roeck
2024-05-17 1:09 ` Chris Packham
2024-05-17 17:00 ` Conor Dooley
2024-05-17 17:02 ` Conor Dooley
2024-05-17 17:26 ` Guenter Roeck
2024-05-17 17:39 ` Conor Dooley
2024-05-08 21:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] hwmon: (adt7475) Add support for configuring initial PWM " Chris Packham
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