The way we define the phase (the difference between the time of the signal's rising edge, and the closest integer multiple of the period), it doesn't make sense to have a phase value equal or larger than 1 period. So deny these settings coming from the user. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>