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Date:   Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:12:42 -0700
From:   Guru Das Srinagesh <gurus@codeaurora.org>
To:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 12/13] backlight: pwm_bl: Use 64-bit division macros
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On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 02:34:32PM +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> This patch looks like it is a tiny change to get the pwm_backlight to
> perform 64-bit division. Most of the above text is completely irrelevant
> to the change contained in this patch. No need to justify the change in
> the PWM structures here since that can go in the patch that changes
> those structures.  Just describe what this patch does, perhaps something
> like the following:
> 
>     The PWM API will shortly switch the state.period and
>     state.duty_cycle fields to 64-bit values. Make pwm_bl
>     ready for this transition by adopting 64-bit division
>     macros.

Will update the commit text accordingly.

> Also please copy the backlight maintainers into the covering letter. It
> is useful to place patches like this into context.

Will do.

Thank you.

Guru Das.