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

Dave Airlie airlied at gmail.com
Tue Sep 16 17:56:21 PDT 2014


On 16 September 2014 04:51, Ezequiel Garcia
<ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar> wrote:
> On 15 Sep 05:59 PM, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> On 15 September 2014 17:50, Ezequiel Garcia
>> <ezequiel at vanguardiasur.com.ar> wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Could you stick it in a git tree somewhere? and send a pull request for it?
>>
>
> Hm.. I really don't have a git tree ready :/
>
> Do you think you can pick the patches this time? I'll setup a tree as soon
> as possible.

Okay pushed to drm-next.

Dave.


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