linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] backlight: pwm_bl: Drop support for legacy PWM probing

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Date:   Thu, 17 Nov 2022 10:14:01 +0000
From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>, Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: pwm_bl: Drop support for legacy PWM probing

On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 08:21:51AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> There is no in-tree user left which relies on legacy probing. So drop
> support for it which removes another user of the deprecated
> pwm_request() function.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

I have to take the "no in-tree user" on faith since I'm not familiar
enough with PWM history to check that. However from a backlight
point-of-view it looks like a nice tidy up:
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>


Daniel.