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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
To: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] pwm_backlight: Add support for the whole range of the PWM in DT mode
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:00:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130129100048.GB16746@avionic-0098.mockup.avionic-design.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358861996-27194-5-git-send-email-peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>

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On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 02:39:56PM +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
> When booting with DT make it possible to use the whole range of the PWM when
> controlling the backlight in a same way it is possible when the kernel is
> booted in non DT mode.
> A new property "max-brightness-level" can be used to specify the maximum
> value the PWM can handle (time slots).
> DTS files can use either the "brightness-levels" or the "max-brightness-level"
> to configure the PWM.
> In case both of these properties exist the driver will prefer the
> "brightness-levels" over the "max-brightness-level".
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@ti.com>

I don't think this is a good idea. The brightness-levels property was
specifically introduced in order to have a more reasonable interface to
specify brightness levels.

As such, all uses of the non-DT max_brightness to be deprecated. It is
only kept for backwards compatibility with non-DT boards.

Thierry

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29 10:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-22 13:39 [PATCH 0/4] pwm_backlight: Error fixes and update for DT support Peter Ujfalusi
2013-01-22 13:39 ` [PATCH 1/4] pwm_backlight: Fix PWM levels support in non DT case Peter Ujfalusi
2013-01-28 21:01   ` Thierry Reding
2013-01-29  8:17     ` Peter Ujfalusi
2013-01-29 10:17       ` Thierry Reding
2013-01-29 12:10         ` Peter Ujfalusi
2013-01-29 12:30           ` Thierry Reding
2013-01-30  7:34             ` Peter Ujfalusi
2013-01-22 13:39 ` [PATCH 2/4] pwm_backlight: Validate dft_brightness in main probe function Peter Ujfalusi
2013-01-31 12:38   ` Peter Ujfalusi
2013-01-31 12:58     ` Thierry Reding
2013-01-22 13:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] pwm_backlight: Refactor the DT parsing code Peter Ujfalusi
2013-01-22 13:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] pwm_backlight: Add support for the whole range of the PWM in DT mode Peter Ujfalusi
2013-01-29 10:00   ` Thierry Reding [this message]

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