linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] leds: leds-pwm: Convert to use devm_get

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Message-ID: <20121211094812.GA22222@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de>
Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:48:12 +0100
From:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...onic-design.de>
To:	Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@...com>
Cc:	Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] leds: leds-pwm: Convert to use devm_get_pwm

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:39:53AM +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 12/11/2012 10:31 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:57:51AM +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> > Okay, if there are no intree users that may be broken, then it should be
> > fine to remove it. In that case you might want to remove the pwm_id
> > field as well instead of deprecating it in this patch.
> 
> The reason I marked the pwm_id as deprecated is to signal to out of tree users
> (if any) that they should stop using it since it is going to go away in the
> next cycle.
> If we remove it right away the sdp4030 board file will not going to compile in
> subsystem trees, only in linux-next.

Okay, go ahead then. As long as the field will be removed eventually
that's fine with me.

Thierry

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