[PATCH 00/12] ARM: davinci: da850-evm: remove more legacy GPIO calls

[Lee Jones]

On Mon, 01 Jul 2019, Sekhar Nori wrote:

> Hi Lee, Daniel, Jingoo,
> 
> On 25/06/19 10:04 PM, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski at baylibre.com>
> > 
> > This is another small step on the path to liberating davinci from legacy
> > GPIO API calls and shrinking the davinci GPIO driver by not having to
> > support the base GPIO number anymore.
> > 
> > This time we're removing the legacy calls used indirectly by the LCDC
> > fbdev driver.
> > 
> > The first three patches modify the GPIO backlight driver. The first
> > of them adds the necessary functionality, the other two are just
> > tweaks and cleanups.
> 
> Can you take the first three patches for v5.3 - if its not too late? I
> think that will make it easy for rest of patches to make into subsequent
> kernel releases.

It's already too late in the cycle (-rc7) for that.  I require patches
of this nature to have a good soak in -next before being merged. There
shouldn't be an issue with getting them into v5.4 though.

> > Next two patches enable the GPIO backlight driver in
> > davinci_all_defconfig.
> > 
> > Patch 6/12 models the backlight GPIO as an actual GPIO backlight device.
> > 
> > Patches 7-9 extend the fbdev driver with regulator support and convert
> > the da850-evm board file to using it.
> > 
> > Last three patches are improvements to the da8xx fbdev driver since
> > we're already touching it in this series.
> 
> Thanks,
> Sekhar
> 

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