linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/12] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: remove more legacy GPIO calls

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Message-ID: <fe42c0e1-2bfb-2b1c-2c38-0e176e88ec6e@ti.com>
Date:   Mon, 1 Jul 2019 20:10:41 +0530
From:   Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
CC:     <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        <linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: remove more legacy GPIO
 calls

Hi Lee, Daniel, Jingoo,

On 25/06/19 10:04 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> 
> This is another small step on the path to liberating davinci from legacy
> GPIO API calls and shrinking the davinci GPIO driver by not having to
> support the base GPIO number anymore.
> 
> This time we're removing the legacy calls used indirectly by the LCDC
> fbdev driver.
> 
> The first three patches modify the GPIO backlight driver. The first
> of them adds the necessary functionality, the other two are just
> tweaks and cleanups.

Can you take the first three patches for v5.3 - if its not too late? I
think that will make it easy for rest of patches to make into subsequent
kernel releases.

> 
> Next two patches enable the GPIO backlight driver in
> davinci_all_defconfig.
> 
> Patch 6/12 models the backlight GPIO as an actual GPIO backlight device.
> 
> Patches 7-9 extend the fbdev driver with regulator support and convert
> the da850-evm board file to using it.
> 
> Last three patches are improvements to the da8xx fbdev driver since
> we're already touching it in this series.

Thanks,
Sekhar