[PATCH] backlight: Delete the OT200 backlight driver

[Lee Jones]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2020, Linus Walleij wrote:

> This driver has no in-kernel users. The device can only be populated
> by board files since it does not support device tree nor ACPI,
> and nothing in the kernel creates a device named "ot200-backlight".
> 
> This driver has been in the kernel since 2012. If it is used by
> out-of-tree code that code should have been upstreamed by now,
> it's been 8 years.
> 
> It uses the idiomatic forked GPIO of the CS5535 which combines
> pin control and GPIO into its private custom interface, which
> causes me a headache because that is not how we do things these
> days: we creates separate pin control and GPIO drivers.
> 
> Delete this unused driver.
> 
> Cc: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
> ---
>  drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig    |   7 --
>  drivers/video/backlight/Makefile   |   1 -
>  drivers/video/backlight/ot200_bl.c | 162 -----------------------------
>  3 files changed, 170 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 drivers/video/backlight/ot200_bl.c

Applied, thanks.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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