Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] backlight: fix device-tree node lookups

From: Lee Jones
Date: Fri May 11 2018 - 04:13:37 EST


On Fri, 11 May 2018, Johan Hovold wrote:

> Hi Lee,
>
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:45:43AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > A number of drivers have been using the wrong OF helper when doing child-node
> > lookups during probe. This meant that they were doing tree-wide searches rather
> > than matching on child nodes and that the parent node could end up being
> > prematurely freed.
>
> > Johan Hovold (4):
> > backlight: as3711_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
> > backlight: max8925_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
> > backlight: tps65217_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
> > backlight: as3711_bl: fix device-tree node leaks
>
> It appears these four have been sitting in your for-backlight-fixes
> branch for half a year now without being forwarded to Linus.
>
> Don't get many backlight fixes these days, huh? ;)

Ha! To be honest I think those patches are the only 4 -fixes I've
*ever* had for Backlight. :)

I have pulled them into the main branch, so they won't be forgotten
again. Sorry for the delay.

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