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authorUwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>2025-04-08 16:23:54 +0200
committerUwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>2025-04-17 11:52:13 +0200
commite463b05d10da12b13d03f41a407e2ad043af158f (patch)
treef0596f758dfb46fb2b99250cae7e88887efcfb22
parentbd897149e40cb5c95f3d8546108035d1ea167db5 (diff)
pwm: Better document return value of pwm_round_waveform_might_sleep()
Better explain how pwm_round_waveform_might_sleep() (and so the respective lowlevel driver callback) is supposed to round and the meaning of the return value. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/db84abf1e82e4498fc0e7c318d2673771d0039fe.1744120697.git.ukleinek@kernel.org [ukleinek: Fix a rst formatting issue reported by Stephen Rothwell] Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/pwm/core.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pwm/core.c b/drivers/pwm/core.c
index 59cc8792e312..079964961bd8 100644
--- a/drivers/pwm/core.c
+++ b/drivers/pwm/core.c
@@ -229,8 +229,12 @@ static int __pwm_write_waveform(struct pwm_chip *chip, struct pwm_device *pwm, c
* these two calls and the waveform determined by
* pwm_round_waveform_might_sleep() cannot be implemented any more.
*
- * Returns 0 on success, 1 if there is no valid hardware configuration matching
- * the input waveform under the PWM rounding rules or a negative errno.
+ * Usually all values passed in @wf are rounded down to the nearest possible
+ * value (in the order period_length_ns, duty_length_ns and then
+ * duty_offset_ns). Only if this isn't possible, a value might grow.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 on success, 1 if at least one value had to be rounded up or a
+ * negative errno.
*/
int pwm_round_waveform_might_sleep(struct pwm_device *pwm, struct pwm_waveform *wf)
{