Re: [PATCH 2/2] backlight: gpio: delete pdata inversion

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Tue May 23 2017 - 10:15:18 EST


On 30/04/17 09:17, Linus Walleij wrote:
The option to invert the output of the GPIO (active low) is
not used by the only platform still using platform data to
set up a GPIO backlight (one SH board). Delete the option
as we do not expect to expand the use of board files for
this driver, and GPIO descriptors intrinsically keep track
of any signal inversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

I note that only ~40% of Linux architectures currently have DT support at this point... There are still a few "embedded" ones that make do with platform bus (although they are growing increasingly niche).

Having said that I can't argue with "it's not used anywhere" (I've only really posted the above paragraph as a hint for future archeology... since it might be me doing the digging):
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>


Daniel.


---
drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c | 15 ++-------------
include/linux/platform_data/gpio_backlight.h | 1 -
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c
index 17dd8071ad4d..8c19dc6c9236 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ struct gpio_backlight {
struct device *fbdev;
struct gpio_desc *gpiod;
- int active;
int def_value;
};
@@ -39,8 +38,7 @@ static int gpio_backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device *bl)
bl->props.state & (BL_CORE_SUSPENDED | BL_CORE_FBBLANK))
brightness = 0;
- gpiod_set_value_cansleep(gbl->gpiod,
- brightness ? gbl->active : !gbl->active);
+ gpiod_set_value_cansleep(gbl->gpiod, brightness);
return 0;
}
@@ -72,8 +70,6 @@ static int gpio_backlight_probe_dt(struct platform_device *pdev,
flags = GPIOD_OUT_HIGH;
else
flags = GPIOD_OUT_LOW;
- /* GPIO descriptors keep track of inversion */
- gbl->active = 1;
gbl->gpiod = devm_gpiod_get(dev, NULL, flags);
if (IS_ERR(gbl->gpiod)) {
@@ -124,15 +120,8 @@ static int gpio_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
unsigned long flags = GPIOF_DIR_OUT;
gbl->fbdev = pdata->fbdev;
- gbl->active = pdata->active_low ? 0 : 1;
gbl->def_value = pdata->def_value;
-
- if (gbl->active)
- flags |= gbl->def_value ?
- GPIOF_INIT_HIGH : GPIOF_INIT_LOW;
- else
- flags |= gbl->def_value ?
- GPIOF_INIT_LOW : GPIOF_INIT_HIGH;
+ flags |= gbl->def_value ? GPIOF_INIT_HIGH : GPIOF_INIT_LOW;
ret = devm_gpio_request_one(gbl->dev, pdata->gpio, flags,
pdata ? pdata->name : "backlight");
diff --git a/include/linux/platform_data/gpio_backlight.h b/include/linux/platform_data/gpio_backlight.h
index 5ae0d9c80d4d..683d90453c41 100644
--- a/include/linux/platform_data/gpio_backlight.h
+++ b/include/linux/platform_data/gpio_backlight.h
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ struct gpio_backlight_platform_data {
struct device *fbdev;
int gpio;
int def_value;
- bool active_low;
const char *name;
};