Yes Marko, pwm_set_frequency_func_t() is to set the frequency of
device. The comment you mentioned makes no sense to me either, it was
inherited from hal_pwm I just forgot to delete it. I see no reason for
this operation to affect channels provided by other devices.

Thanks for your feedback :)

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 5:56 PM, marko kiiskila <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> On Jul 10, 2017, at 8:31 PM, Miguel Azevedo <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I am currently developing a PWM driver for mynewt, more specifically a
>> driver for nRF52 based hardware.
>> Therefore I came up with this PWM high level API, which will be
>> described ahead on this e-mail.
>> Its source code:
>> https://github.com/mlaz/mynewt-core/blob/pwm_dev/hw/drivers/pwm/include/pwm/pwm.h
>>
>> This API is based in both the current ADC high level API
>> https://github.com/apache/mynewt-core/blob/master/hw/drivers/adc/include/adc/adc.h
>> and the abandoned hal_pwm API
>> https://github.com/apache/mynewt-core/blob/090_dev/hw/hal/include/hal/hal_pwm.h
>> .
>> The API itself is roughly the same as hal_pwm exposes, which aligns
>> with the following concepts:
>> -It is assumed that within a system there is a number of discrete PWM
>> devices which provide a number of channels per device.
>> -These devices are configurable, its configuration typically
>> contemplates all the parameters which affect all the provided channels
>> (global to the device).
>> -A channel is also configurable and its configuration may or may not
>> affect other channels provided by the same device, depending on the
>> device's configuration.
>>
>> I would be glad to have some feedback from the community, in order to
>> validate this approach.
>>
>
> In general this seems reasonable, I like it. And thanks for picking up the 
> effort.
>
> For clarification; setting frequency for a pwm_dev
> would set it for all channels belonging to that pwm_dev? Comment on the
> function prototype for pwm_set_frequency_func_t() says that ‘it might’ affect 
> other
> channels, and this confuses me :) What do you mean by that comment?
>
> —
> M



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