[PATCH v7 11/12] davinci: add tnetv107x evm backlight device

Nori, Sekhar nsekhar at ti.com
Thu Dec 9 03:55:49 EST 2010


Hi Cyril,

On Tue, Dec 07, 2010 at 20:22:01, Chemparathy, Cyril wrote:
> The tnetv107x evm board has a backlight device that is connected on one of the
> SSP ports.  This patch adds the board definitions necessary to plug the
> backlight driver to the GPIO corresponding to this SSP pin.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Chemparathy <cyril at ti.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-tnetv107x-evm.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-tnetv107x-evm.c b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-tnetv107x-evm.c
> index e3863dd..ac62de2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-tnetv107x-evm.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-tnetv107x-evm.c
> @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
>  #define EVM_MMC_WP_GPIO              21
>  #define EVM_MMC_CD_GPIO              24
>  #define EVM_SPI_CS_GPIO              54
> +#define EVM_BACKLIGHT_GPIO   (SSP_GPIO_START + 2)
>
>  static int initialize_gpio(int gpio, char *desc)
>  {
> @@ -353,6 +354,12 @@ static struct spi_board_info spi_info[] __initconst = {
>       },
>  };
>
> +static struct platform_device backlight_device = {
> +     .name           = "tps6116x",
> +     .id             = -1,
> +     .dev.platform_data = (void *)EVM_BACKLIGHT_GPIO,
> +};
> +
>  static __init void tnetv107x_evm_board_init(void)
>  {
>       davinci_cfg_reg_list(sdio1_pins);
> @@ -364,6 +371,13 @@ static __init void tnetv107x_evm_board_init(void)
>       spi_register_board_info(spi_info, ARRAY_SIZE(spi_info));
>  }
>
> +static int __init tnetv107x_evm_late_init(void)
> +{
> +     platform_device_register(&backlight_device);
> +     return 0;
> +}
> +late_initcall(tnetv107x_evm_late_init);

This call should simply return if machine is not tnetv107x EVM.

I didn't follow the entire series but wondering why
platform device registration should be a late init call.
Typically the driver probe can be made a late init call
in case of init sequence dependencies.

Thanks,
Sekhar




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