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From: acourbot@nvidia.com (Alex Courbot)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH V4 0/9] Add mandatory regulator for all users of pwm-backlight.
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 11:24:48 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51491DF0.10408@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130320021442.GB20443@S2101-09.ap.freescale.net>

On 03/20/2013 11:14 AM, Shawn Guo wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:59:24AM -0700, Andrew Chew wrote:
>> Many backlights are enabled via GPIO.  We can generalize the GPIO to a
>> fixed regulator.
>>
> I think we should push the series of "Runtime Interpreted Power
> Sequences" moving forward, which should be useful this case and many
> other cases as well.
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1395912

That's still the medium-term plan. But doing this correctly requires 
some improvements to be done in the GPIO subsystem, which I am pushing 
at the moment.

Eventually power sequences should handle this kind of scenario, but by 
the meantime it cannot hurt to get the job done.

Alex.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20  2:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-19 18:59 [PATCH V4 0/9] Add mandatory regulator for all users of pwm-backlight Andrew Chew
2013-03-19 18:59 ` [PATCH V4 1/9] ARM: OMAP: board-4430sdp: Provide regulator to pwm-backlight Andrew Chew
2013-03-19 18:59 ` [PATCH V4 2/9] ARM: S3C24XX: " Andrew Chew
2013-03-19 18:59 ` [PATCH V4 3/9] ARM: pxa: " Andrew Chew
2013-03-19 18:59 ` [PATCH V4 4/9] ARM: EXYNOS: " Andrew Chew
2013-03-19 18:59 ` [PATCH V4 5/9] unicore32: " Andrew Chew
2013-03-19 18:59 ` [PATCH V4 6/9] ARM: mxs: " Andrew Chew
2013-03-19 21:27   ` Marek Vasut
2013-03-19 21:31     ` Andrew Chew
2013-03-19 21:35       ` Marek Vasut
2013-03-19 22:10     ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-20  8:23       ` Mark Brown
2013-03-20 14:03         ` Marek Vasut
2013-03-20  3:13   ` Shawn Guo
2013-03-19 18:59 ` [PATCH V4 7/9] ARM: vt8500: " Andrew Chew
2013-03-20 18:18   ` [Bulk] " Tony Prisk
2013-03-19 18:59 ` [PATCH V4 8/9] ARM: tegra: " Andrew Chew
2013-03-21 20:01   ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-22 10:29   ` Thierry Reding
2013-03-19 18:59 ` [PATCH V4 9/9] pwm_bl: Add mandatory backlight enable regulator Andrew Chew
2013-03-20 18:00   ` Stephen Warren
2013-03-20 22:19     ` Thierry Reding
2013-03-20  2:14 ` [PATCH V4 0/9] Add mandatory regulator for all users of pwm-backlight Shawn Guo
2013-03-20  2:24   ` Alex Courbot [this message]
2013-03-20  3:08     ` Shawn Guo
2013-03-20  7:13     ` Tony Prisk
2013-03-22  1:57 ` Alex Courbot

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