From: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
To: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>,
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>,
Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>,
Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>,
NXP Linux Team <linux-imx@nxp.com>,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] backlight: hx8357: prepare to conversion to gpiod API
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2022 21:50:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACRpkdZ-DfZKgCOHaKn1UZ8vVwy1dEiFBBDNdxu6VNzrUdeEtA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YzwtG8CT9sTCqQQk@maple.lan>
On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 2:54 PM Daniel Thompson
<daniel.thompson@linaro.org> wrote:
> > We need to know if i.MX is shipping device trees stored in flash,
> > or if they bundle it with the kernel.
>
> This part is frequently found in add-on boards so it's not purely an
> i.MX-only question.
Oh
> IMHO for not-in-the-soc devices like this the presence of in-kernel DTs
> isn't enough to make a decision. What is needed is a degree of
> due-diligence to show that there are no obvious out-of-kernel users.
OK I think this is a good case to use a special quirk in this case.
I actually envisioned keeping piling them up, and that they would
not be innumerable.
Dmitry, could you fix this? Just patch away in gpiolib-of.c.
Yours,
Linus Walleij
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-04 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-27 22:32 [RFC/PATCH] backlight: hx8357: prepare to conversion to gpiod API Dmitry Torokhov
2022-09-28 11:00 ` Daniel Thompson
2022-09-28 18:33 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2022-10-03 13:32 ` Daniel Thompson
2022-10-04 9:02 ` Linus Walleij
2022-10-04 12:54 ` Daniel Thompson
2022-10-04 19:50 ` Linus Walleij [this message]
2022-10-04 20:35 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2022-10-06 9:03 ` Linus Walleij
2022-10-06 10:04 ` Daniel Thompson
2022-10-10 20:36 ` Linus Walleij
2022-10-12 20:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2022-10-13 12:43 ` Daniel Thompson
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