linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] backlight: fix device-tree node lookups

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Date:   Fri, 11 May 2018 09:27:31 +0200
From:   Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] backlight: fix device-tree node lookups

Hi Lee,

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:45:43AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> A number of drivers have been using the wrong OF helper when doing child-node
> lookups during probe. This meant that they were doing tree-wide searches rather
> than matching on child nodes and that the parent node could end up being
> prematurely freed.

> Johan Hovold (4):
>   backlight: as3711_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
>   backlight: max8925_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
>   backlight: tps65217_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
>   backlight: as3711_bl: fix device-tree node leaks

It appears these four have been sitting in your for-backlight-fixes 
branch for half a year now without being forwarded to Linus.

Don't get many backlight fixes these days, huh? ;)

Thanks,
Johan