From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757773AbdEVJLm (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2017 05:11:42 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:36420 "EHLO mail-wm0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757665AbdEVJLk (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2017 05:11:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] backlight: gpio: Convert to use GPIO descriptor To: Linus Walleij , Lee Jones , Jingoo Han , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Cc: Laurent Pinchart References: <20170430081731.14315-1-linus.walleij@linaro.org> From: Daniel Thompson Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 10:11:32 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 22/05/17 09:45, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Linus Walleij > wrote: > >> This driver is predominantly used by device tree systems, all >> of which can deal with modern GPIO descriptors. The legacy >> GPIO API is only used by one SH board so make the GPIO >> descriptor the default way to deal with it. >> >> As an intended side effect we do not need to look around in >> the device tree for the inversion flag since the GPIO >> descriptors will intrinsically deal with this. >> >> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij > > No reaction on this patch since 21 days so sending an > unsolicited ping. Maintainer is alive! Sorry for sluggish service. It is TODOed but has been eclipsed for many days. Will get to it soon. Daniel.