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Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/16] Support TI LMU devices

From "Kim, Milo" <milo.kim@ti.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/16] Support TI LMU devices
Date 2015-11-03 10:10 +0100
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On 11/3/2015 5:33 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Nov 2015, Kim, Milo wrote:
>
>> Hi Lee,
>>
>> On 11/2/2015 5:59 PM, Lee Jones wrote:
>>>>   drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig                    |  62 ++
>>>>>   drivers/video/backlight/Makefile                   |   7 +
>>>>>   drivers/video/backlight/lm3532_bl.c                | 183 +++++
>>>>>   drivers/video/backlight/lm3631_bl.c                | 129 ++++
>>>>>   drivers/video/backlight/lm3632_bl.c                | 125 ++++
>>>>>   drivers/video/backlight/lm3633_bl.c                | 210 ++++++
>>>>>   drivers/video/backlight/lm3695_bl.c                |  91 +++
>>>>>   drivers/video/backlight/lm3697_bl.c                | 187 +++++
>>>>>   drivers/video/backlight/ti-lmu-backlight.c         | 429 ++++++++++++
>>>>>   drivers/video/backlight/ti-lmu-backlight.h         | 152 +++++
>>> How different are all of these drivers?
>>>
>>> Can you create one driver that supports them all instead?
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestion.
>>
>> 'ti-lmu-backlight' is the common part of lmxxxx_bl drivers. And each
>> lmxxx_bl has its own operation functions by using ti_lmu_bl_ops.
>> I've tried to make consolidated driver but it contained too much
>> device specific code in one file. So I prefer simple drivers
>> structure - 'common part' and 'device specific operations'.
>> It would be appreciated if you could introduce better idea.
>
> I wish to avoid having to apply the patches to conduct my own analysis
> of the files, as I am severely restricted on time.  Can you tell me how
> much duplicated code there is between the files?  How many lines would
> be saved by supporting all of the lm* drivers in a single file?
>

Understood. Let me try it again. I'll get back to you soon.
Thanks for your help.

Best regards,
Milo
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[PATCH RESEND 00/16] Support TI LMU devices Milo Kim <milo.kim@ti.com> - 2015-11-02 06:30 +0100
  [PATCH RESEND 02/16] Documentation: dt-bindings: backlight: add TI LMU backlight binding information Milo Kim <milo.kim@ti.com> - 2015-11-02 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH RESEND 02/16] Documentation: dt-bindings: backlight: add  TI LMU backlight binding information Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2015-11-02 16:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH RESEND 02/16] Documentation: dt-bindings: backlight: add  TI LMU backlight binding information "Kim, Milo" <milo.kim@ti.com> - 2015-11-03 08:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH RESEND 02/16] Documentation: dt-bindings: backlight: add  TI LMU backlight binding information Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2015-11-03 16:40 +0100
  [PATCH RESEND 06/16] mfd: add TI LMU driver Milo Kim <milo.kim@ti.com> - 2015-11-02 06:30 +0100
  [PATCH RESEND 13/16] backlight: ti-lmu-backlight: add LM3697 driver Milo Kim <milo.kim@ti.com> - 2015-11-02 06:30 +0100
  [PATCH RESEND 03/16] Documentation: dt-bindings: hwmon: add TI LMU HWMON binding information Milo Kim <milo.kim@ti.com> - 2015-11-02 06:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH RESEND 03/16] Documentation: dt-bindings: hwmon: add TI  LMU HWMON binding information Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> - 2015-11-06 03:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH RESEND 03/16] Documentation: dt-bindings: hwmon: add TI  LMU HWMON binding information "Kim, Milo" <milo.kim@ti.com> - 2015-11-06 05:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/16] Support TI LMU devices Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-11-02 10:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/16] Support TI LMU devices "Kim, Milo" <milo.kim@ti.com> - 2015-11-03 08:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/16] Support TI LMU devices Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-11-03 09:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/16] Support TI LMU devices "Kim, Milo" <milo.kim@ti.com> - 2015-11-03 10:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/16] Support TI LMU devices Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-11-02 10:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/16] Support TI LMU devices "Kim, Milo" <milo.kim@ti.com> - 2015-11-03 08:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH RESEND 00/16] Support TI LMU devices Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> - 2015-11-03 09:50 +0100

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