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From: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
To: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>
Cc: Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomba@iki.fi>,
	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
	Mark Zhang <markz@nvidia.com>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" 
	<devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv9 1/3] Runtime Interpreted Power Sequences
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:39:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACxGe6tSp=YDDO28Edu4ZO1y96mdnK69ujM=dC=9LExw_FKrbQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121121151209.GA4048@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de>

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@avionic-design.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:02:47AM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>> Mmmm so maybe I am misinterpreting things, but it looks like we
>> have just buried the power sequences here, haven't we?
>
> I don't think so. In fact I was just starting to think that maybe for
> Tegra we could have a generic panel driver which used power sequences
> to abstract away the pin differences for powering up the panel. Since
> most likely that will be where the differences are there is a lot of
> potential to factor things out into sequences.
>
> Perhaps what we may want to postpone for now is the DT representation
> since that's what Tomi and Grant seem to be mostly opposed to.

Don't give up. I'm am being cautions and trying to think of all the
implications because that is what I have to do as a maintainer. I'm
not opposed to the feature but I need a good level of confidence that
it has been fully thought out.

g.

--
Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng.
Secret Lab Technologies Ltd.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-22 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-17 10:55 [PATCHv9 0/3] Runtime Interpreted Power Sequences Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-17 10:55 ` [PATCHv9 1/3] " Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-17 11:38   ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-11-19  2:29     ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-19  2:32       ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-11-20 14:48   ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21  1:56     ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-21  8:13       ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21  8:32         ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-21  8:48           ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21 10:00             ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-22 13:01               ` Grant Likely
2012-11-20 21:54   ` Grant Likely
2012-11-21  1:31     ` Mark Brown
2012-11-21 16:44       ` Grant Likely
2012-11-22  8:57       ` Linus Walleij
2012-11-22  9:55         ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-23  1:44         ` Mark Brown
2012-11-21  4:23     ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-21 11:06       ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21 11:40         ` Thierry Reding
2012-11-21 12:04           ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21 13:00             ` Thierry Reding
2012-11-21 13:32               ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21 15:02                 ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-21 15:12                   ` Thierry Reding
2012-11-22  2:01                     ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-22  2:06                       ` Mark Brown
2012-11-22  3:09                         ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-22 13:39                     ` Grant Likely [this message]
2012-11-27 15:19               ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-11-27 15:08             ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-11-27 15:19               ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-27 15:37                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-11-27 16:46                   ` Mark Brown
2012-11-27 14:47           ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-11-22 13:39       ` Grant Likely
2012-11-22 21:40         ` Thierry Reding
2012-11-26 11:49           ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-26 15:34           ` Grant Likely
2012-11-17 10:55 ` [PATCHv9 2/3] pwm_backlight: use power sequences Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-17 10:55 ` [PATCHv9 3/3] Take maintainership of " Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-20 21:58 ` [PATCHv9 0/3] Runtime Interpreted Power Sequences Grant Likely

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