tree eaee7c4c0c9df040062291bcbff94a3467c483e4
parent 14b9dc66e93abbd16b22ac9153f658de1acaaf49
author Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com> 1719570919 +0200
committer Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org> 1720626832 +0200

pwm: Allow pwm state transitions from an invalid state

While driving a PWM via the sysfs API it's hard to determine the right
order of writes to the pseudo files "period" and "duty_cycle":

If you want to go from duty_cycle/period = 50/100 to 150/300 you have to
write period first (because 150/100 is invalid). If however you start at
400/500 the duty_cycle must be configured first. The rule that works is:
If you increase period write period first, otherwise write duty_cycle
first. A complication however is that it's usually sensible to configure
the polarity before both period and duty_cycle. This can only be done if
the current state's duty_cycle and period configuration isn't bogus
though. It is still worse (but I think only theoretic) if you have a PWM
that only supports inverted polarity and you start with period = 0 and
polarity = normal. Then you can change neither period (because polarity
= normal is refused) nor polarity (because there is still period = 0).

To simplify the corner cases for userspace, let invalid target states
pass if the current state is invalid already.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628103519.105020-2-u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@kernel.org>