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Date:   Tue, 14 Jul 2020 09:18:10 +0200
From:   Uwe =?utf-8?Q?Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] Add PWM fan controller driver for LGM SoC
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Hello Rahul,

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 01:35:14PM +0800, Tanwar, Rahul wrote:
> On 14/7/2020 3:10 am, Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 03:55:32PM +0800, Rahul Tanwar wrote:
> Given the fact that this is a dedicated PWM fan controller with no other
> PWM consumer, do you think that this driver belongs to drivers/hwmon
> instead of drivers/pwm? Thanks.

If you implement the PWM API it belongs to drivers/pwm I'd say. (There
are some "mixed" drivers that implement both GPIO and PWM that live in
drivers/gpio, but if the support can be separated in a sane way, such
mixing isn't welcome.)

Best regards
Uwe

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