Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] backlight: gpio: simplify the driver

From: Bartosz Golaszewski
Date: Thu Aug 08 2019 - 04:17:14 EST


År., 24 lip 2019 o 10:25 Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@xxxxxxxx> napisaÅ(a):
>
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> While working on my other series related to gpio-backlight[1] I noticed
> that we could simplify the driver if we made the only user of platform
> data use GPIO lookups and device properties. This series tries to do
> that.
>
> The first patch adds all necessary data structures to ecovec24. Patch
> 2/7 unifies much of the code for both pdata and non-pdata cases. Patches
> 3-4/7 remove unused platform data fields. Last three patches contain
> additional improvements for the GPIO backlight driver while we're already
> modifying it.
>
> I don't have access to this HW but hopefully this works. Only compile
> tested.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/6/25/900
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - rebased on top of v5.3-rc1 and adjusted to the recent changes from Andy
> - added additional two patches with minor improvements
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - in patch 7/7: used initializers to set values for pdata and dev local vars
>
> Bartosz Golaszewski (7):
> sh: ecovec24: add additional properties to the backlight device
> backlight: gpio: simplify the platform data handling
> sh: ecovec24: don't set unused fields in platform data
> backlight: gpio: remove unused fields from platform data
> backlight: gpio: remove dev from struct gpio_backlight
> backlight: gpio: remove def_value from struct gpio_backlight
> backlight: gpio: use a helper variable for &pdev->dev
>
> arch/sh/boards/mach-ecovec24/setup.c | 33 ++++++--
> drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c | 82 +++++---------------
> include/linux/platform_data/gpio_backlight.h | 3 -
> 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.21.0
>

Hi Rich, Yoshinori,

can you ack the sh patches in this series?

Bart