[PATCH/RESEND 0/8] tilcdc-panel: Backlight and GPIO devicetree support

Ezequiel Garcia ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar
Mon Sep 15 00:50:07 PDT 2014


Dave,

On 03 Sep 08:08 AM, Johannes Pointner wrote:
> 2014-09-02 14:51 GMT+02:00 Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar>:
> > Dave,
> >
> > I'm resending this, hoping it can be pushed for v3.18. The patchset was
> > ready for v3.17, but it got no maintainer feedback or review. Maybe it fell
> > through some crack?
> >
> > Just for reference, here goes the details about this series and why it's
> > needed:
> >
> > This patchset adds the required changes to support an optional backlight
> > and GPIO for the tilcdc panel driver.
> >
> > There was some code to support a backlight, but it was broken and undocumented.
> > I've followed the nice implementation in panel-simple and added a similar
> > one here.
> >
> > The enable GPIO is required to turn on and off devices with such capability.
> > Also here, I've followed panel-simple which looks correct.
> >
> > In addition to this there are very minor cosmetic cleanups and a larger
> > fix for the error path in tilcdc's DRM driver .load error path.
> >
> 
> I tested the series with 3.16.1 (with additonal patches from Guido and
> Sachin) and with 3.17-rc3 with a custom AM335x board and it worked for
> me without an issue. I tried it with and without the backlight
> addition in the dts file.
> 
> For the series:
> Tested-by: Johannes Pointner <johannes.pointner at br-automation.com>
> 

Any feedback for this series?

If at all possible, it'd be great to not miss the merge this time.
-- 
Ezequiel Garcia, VanguardiaSur
www.vanguardiasur.com.ar


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