From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] backlight: Provide two stage registration
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:27:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090915192730.GA8152@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1253042322.30165.52.camel@dax.rpnet.com>
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:18:42PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> Could we not pass an optional pointer to a properties structure to
> create the backlight with instead or find a better way to solve this?
That'd work, but it'd involve significant refactoring of all the
drivers - we really need to be setting max_brightness before
device_register() is called. I suspect it'd be an even larger delta
against mainline.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-15 19:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-15 16:19 Matthew Garrett
2009-09-15 16:19 ` [PATCH 2/3] backlight: Transition drivers to new backlight API Matthew Garrett
2009-09-15 16:19 ` [PATCH 3/3] backlight: Remove old device_register and device_unregister API Matthew Garrett
2009-09-15 19:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] backlight: Provide two stage registration Richard Purdie
2009-09-15 19:27 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2009-09-15 19:42 ` Richard Purdie
2009-09-16 2:22 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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