[PATCH] ARM: pxa: Add dummy backlight power supply on Mitac Mio A701

Robert Jarzmik robert.jarzmik at free.fr
Mon Jan 6 03:19:22 EST 2014


Thierry Reding <thierry.reding at gmail.com> writes:

> Recent changes to the pwm-backlight driver have made the power supply
> mandatory. There is code in the regulator core to deal with situations
> where no regulator is specified and provide a dummy, but that works on
> DT-based boards only.
>
> The situation can be remedied by adding a dummy regulator during board
> initialization.

Haojian, ping ?
We're at -rc7 and I've seen no pull of this fix. As the display is broken
without it, I'd really like to have it fixed for v3.13.

Cheers.

--
Robert



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