Re: [PATCH 1/2] backlight: gpio: Convert to use GPIO descriptor

From	Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH 1/2] backlight: gpio: Convert to use GPIO descriptor
Date	2017-05-22 11:20 +0200
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On 22/05/17 09:45, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 10:17 AM, Linus Walleij
> <linus.walleij@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
>> This driver is predominantly used by device tree systems, all
>> of which can deal with modern GPIO descriptors. The legacy
>> GPIO API is only used by one SH board so make the GPIO
>> descriptor the default way to deal with it.
>>
>> As an intended side effect we do not need to look around in
>> the device tree for the inversion flag since the GPIO
>> descriptors will intrinsically deal with this.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
> 
> No reaction on this patch since 21 days so sending an
> unsolicited ping.

Maintainer is alive!

Sorry for sluggish service. It is TODOed but has been eclipsed for many 
days. Will get to it soon.


Daniel.

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Re: [PATCH 1/2] backlight: gpio: Convert to use GPIO descriptor Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2017-05-22 10:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 1/2] backlight: gpio: Convert to use GPIO descriptor Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> - 2017-05-22 11:20 +0200

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