Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] leds: leds-pwm: Convert to use devm_get_pwm

[Thierry Reding]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:53:11AM +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> On 12/11/2012 10:48 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:39:53AM +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> >> On 12/11/2012 10:31 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:57:51AM +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> >>> Okay, if there are no intree users that may be broken, then it should be
> >>> fine to remove it. In that case you might want to remove the pwm_id
> >>> field as well instead of deprecating it in this patch.
> >>
> >> The reason I marked the pwm_id as deprecated is to signal to out of tree users
> >> (if any) that they should stop using it since it is going to go away in the
> >> next cycle.
> >> If we remove it right away the sdp4030 board file will not going to compile in
> >> subsystem trees, only in linux-next.
> > 
> > Okay, go ahead then. As long as the field will be removed eventually
> > that's fine with me.
> 
> Thank you and yes, it will be removed.
> 
> Probably it would be a good thing to check other places for legacy
> pwm_request() users and prepare them to move to (devm_)pwm_get gracefully over
> coming kernel releases.

Yes, I have a local patch that deprecates pwm_request() and pwm_free()
to make it easy to spot them (though git grep does a better job actually
as it doesn't require compilation). I originally planned to replace all
pwm_request()/pwm_free() usage by pwm_get()/pwm_put() already for 3.8
but got side-tracked with other stuff but I hope I can make it for 3.9.
If that works out we could remove pwm_request() and pwm_free()
completely for 3.10.

Thierry

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