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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/pwm.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/pwm.rst index 3c28ccc4b611..b41b1c56477f 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/pwm.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/pwm.rst @@ -143,11 +143,12 @@ to implement the pwm_*() functions itself. This means that it's impossible to have multiple PWM drivers in the system. For this reason it's mandatory for new drivers to use the generic PWM framework. -A new PWM controller/chip can be added using pwmchip_add() and removed -again with pwmchip_remove(). pwmchip_add() takes a filled in struct -pwm_chip as argument which provides a description of the PWM chip, the -number of PWM devices provided by the chip and the chip-specific -implementation of the supported PWM operations to the framework. +A new PWM controller/chip can be allocated using pwmchip_alloc(), then +registered using pwmchip_add() and removed again with pwmchip_remove(). To undo +pwmchip_alloc() use pwmchip_put(). pwmchip_add() takes a filled in struct +pwm_chip as argument which provides a description of the PWM chip, the number +of PWM devices provided by the chip and the chip-specific implementation of the +supported PWM operations to the framework. When implementing polarity support in a PWM driver, make sure to respect the signal conventions in the PWM framework. By definition, normal polarity |