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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:26:10 +0000
From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v17 01/10] video: backlight: Add helpers to enable and
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On Fri, 19 Jan 2018, Daniel Thompson wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:39:16AM +0000, Meghana Madhyastha wrote:
> > Add helper functions backlight_enable and backlight_disable to
> > enable/disable a backlight device. These helper functions can
> > then be used by different drm and tinydrm drivers to avoid
> > repetition of code and also to enforce a uniform and consistent
> > way to enable/disable a backlight device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Meghana Madhyastha <meghana.madhyastha@gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
> 
> BTW Lee J. looks PRs and merges for the backlight tree, I'll leave it 
> to Lee and whoevers-DRM-tree-this-would-naturally-land-in to decide the 
> merge path.

So the choices are; either I take the set and send out a pull-request
which can be subsequently merged into the DRM repo, OR they are
applied into an immutable branch in the DRM tree and I can pull that
in instead.

Don't really mind which.

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