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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
	Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>,
	Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/drm_panel: fix export of drm_panel_of_backlight, try #3
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 17:46:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200108164618.GA28588@ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1FKOV=1No7Q0g1vF_NQmVHK+g0VOqzPL499Pxbbt1aPQ@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Arnd.

> > > All of this is just another hack until the backlight config usage is
> > > fixed for good. Do we really want to make this the example to copy paste
> > > wherever we hit the issue next?
> > >
> > > I'm not naking, but I'm not acking either.
> >
> > I will try to take a look at your old BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE patch this
> > weekend. I think we need that one fixed - and then we can have this mess
> > with "drm_panel_of_backlight" fixed in the right way.
> 
> I had also attempted to fix the larger mess around 'select' statements in DRM/FB
> around BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE  several times in the past, and even at
> some point sent a patch that was acked but never merged and later broke because
> of other changes.

Any chance you have the patch around or can dig up a pointer?
My google foo did not turn up anything.

	Sam
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-08 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-07 20:32 [PATCH] drm/drm_panel: fix export of drm_panel_of_backlight, try #3 Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-08  9:55 ` Jani Nikula
2020-01-08 10:08   ` Sam Ravnborg
2020-01-08 10:33     ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-08 16:46       ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2020-01-08 20:17         ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-12 20:22 ` Sam Ravnborg

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