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Date:	Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:17:29 +0900
From:	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>
To:	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
Cc:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>,
	Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>, Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	"linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: SAMSUNG: remove gpio flags in dev-backlight

Ping, can I have the Samsung folks review and ,aybe even merge this
patch? enable_gpio_flags is never used in any code, is replaced by
gpiod, and we would like to remove it altogether from pwm_bl. Thanks!

Alex.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com> wrote:
> The pwm-backlight driver is moving to use the gpiod interface,
> which has its own mapping mechanism for platform data GPIOs.
> These mappings carry GPIO properties like active low so they don't have
> to be explicitly handled by GPIO consumers.
>
> Because of this change, the enable_gpio_flags member of
> platform_pwm_backlight_data is going away. dev-backlight was passing
> this member, but had no user making use of it, so it can safely be
> removed. Further GPIOs used by pwm-backlight are expected to be
> defined using the mechanisms provided by the gpiod API.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/plat-samsung/dev-backlight.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/plat-samsung/dev-backlight.c b/arch/arm/plat-samsung/dev-backlight.c
> index be4ad0b21c08..2157c5b539e6 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/plat-samsung/dev-backlight.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/plat-samsung/dev-backlight.c
> @@ -124,8 +124,6 @@ void __init samsung_bl_set(struct samsung_bl_gpio_info *gpio_info,
>                 samsung_bl_data->pwm_period_ns = bl_data->pwm_period_ns;
>         if (bl_data->enable_gpio >= 0)
>                 samsung_bl_data->enable_gpio = bl_data->enable_gpio;
> -       if (bl_data->enable_gpio_flags)
> -               samsung_bl_data->enable_gpio_flags = bl_data->enable_gpio_flags;
>         if (bl_data->init)
>                 samsung_bl_data->init = bl_data->init;
>         if (bl_data->notify)
> --
> 1.9.0
>
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