[PATCH 00/28] backlight: lcd: Remove fbdev dependencies

Daniel Thompson daniel.thompson at linaro.org
Tue Sep 3 14:58:09 UTC 2024


On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:22:38AM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> This series removes most dependencies on fbdev from the lcd subsystem
> and its drivers.
>
> Patches 1 to 3 rework the fbdev notifier, the fbdev's fb_info can
> now refer to a dedicated lcd device, and lcd defines constants for
> power states. These changes resemble similar changes to the backlight
> code.
>
> Patches 4 to 19 update lcd drivers to the new interfaces and perform
> minor cleanups during the process. Patches 20 to 24 update fbdev
> drivers and patch 25 updates the picolcd driver from the hid subsystem.
>
> Patches 25 to 28 finally clean up various lcd interfaces and files.
>
> This patchset is part of a larger effort to implement the lcd code
> without depending on fbdev. Similar patches have been sent out for
> the backlight subsystem, such as in [1] and [2].
>
> Hopefully this series can be merged at once through the lcd tree.
>
> [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/129782/
> [2] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/134718/

I shared a could of nitpicks. You can do what you like with them since
none are major enough to stop me also sharing a:
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson at linaro.org>


Daniel.


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