linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] drop unused BACKLIGHT

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Date:   Tue, 8 Dec 2020 18:00:21 +0100
From:   Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
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        Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@...ca-geosystems.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option

On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:34:46PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> 
> On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 22:29:17 +0000, Andrey Zhizhikin wrote:
> > Since the removal of generic_bl driver from the source tree in commit
> > 7ecdea4a0226 ("backlight: generic_bl: Remove this driver as it is
> > unused") BACKLIGHT_GENERIC config option became obsolete as well and
> > therefore subject to clean-up from all configuration files.
> > 
> > This series introduces patches to address this removal, separated by
> > architectures in the kernel tree.
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> While my plan was to only take the arm specific patches, it seems
> nobody else has applied the other architecture specific ones,
> but there have been a lot of Acks. Also, b4 makes it easy to
> merge the entire branch, so I'll just take all of these.
> 
> Applied to arm/defconfig, thanks!
> 
> [1/5] ARM: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
>       commit: 0437141b4e2233ae0109a9584e7a003cd05b0a20
> [2/5] arm64: defconfig: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
>       commit: 717c4c8336486781630893508b3347ae18953fae
> [3/5] MIPS: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
>       commit: 2257682282531de45929c6006152f6e2ee881b42

this one is already in mips-next.

Thomas.

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