linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v17 01/10] video: backlight: Add helpers to enable and disable backlight

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Date:   Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:26:10 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
Cc:     Meghana Madhyastha <meghana.madhyastha@...il.com>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>,
        Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@...com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
        Sean Paul <seanpaul@...omium.org>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 01/10] video: backlight: Add helpers to enable and
 disable backlight

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Daniel Thompson wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:39:16AM +0000, Meghana Madhyastha wrote:
> > Add helper functions backlight_enable and backlight_disable to
> > enable/disable a backlight device. These helper functions can
> > then be used by different drm and tinydrm drivers to avoid
> > repetition of code and also to enforce a uniform and consistent
> > way to enable/disable a backlight device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Meghana Madhyastha <meghana.madhyastha@...il.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
> 
> BTW Lee J. looks PRs and merges for the backlight tree, I'll leave it 
> to Lee and whoevers-DRM-tree-this-would-naturally-land-in to decide the 
> merge path.

So the choices are; either I take the set and send out a pull-request
which can be subsequently merged into the DRM repo, OR they are
applied into an immutable branch in the DRM tree and I can pull that
in instead.

Don't really mind which.

-- 
Lee Jones
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