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Subject: Re: [RFC v4 0/4] StarFive's Pulse Width Modulation driver support
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To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor@kernel.org>,
        William Qiu <william.qiu@starfivetech.com>
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        "Emil Renner Berthing" <kernel@esmil.dk>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
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        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
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        "Krzysztof Kozlowski" <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
        Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
        Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>,
        "Palmer Dabbelt" <palmer@dabbelt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
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From:   Hal Feng <hal.feng@starfivetech.com>
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On 8/28/2023 3:16 PM, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 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*.

Oh, it was misunderstood by William and me.
So this series is not a RFC.

Best regards,
Hal