linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] backlight: gpio: simplify the driver

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Date:   Mon, 5 Aug 2019 23:12:10 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:DRM PANEL DRIVERS" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] backlight: gpio: simplify the driver

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 10:25 AM Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl> wrote:

> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
>
> While working on my other series related to gpio-backlight[1] I noticed
> that we could simplify the driver if we made the only user of platform
> data use GPIO lookups and device properties. This series tries to do
> that.
>
> The first patch adds all necessary data structures to ecovec24. Patch
> 2/7 unifies much of the code for both pdata and non-pdata cases. Patches
> 3-4/7 remove unused platform data fields. Last three patches contain
> additional improvements for the GPIO backlight driver while we're already
> modifying it.
>
> I don't have access to this HW but hopefully this works. Only compile
> tested.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/25/900
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - rebased on top of v5.3-rc1 and adjusted to the recent changes from Andy
> - added additional two patches with minor improvements
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - in patch 7/7: used initializers to set values for pdata and dev local vars

The series:
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij