[PATCH v2 0/5] drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option

Arnd Bergmann arnd at kernel.org
Tue Dec 8 11:34:46 EST 2020


From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 22:29:17 +0000, Andrey Zhizhikin wrote:
> Since the removal of generic_bl driver from the source tree in commit
> 7ecdea4a0226 ("backlight: generic_bl: Remove this driver as it is
> unused") BACKLIGHT_GENERIC config option became obsolete as well and
> therefore subject to clean-up from all configuration files.
> 
> This series introduces patches to address this removal, separated by
> architectures in the kernel tree.
> 
> [...]

While my plan was to only take the arm specific patches, it seems
nobody else has applied the other architecture specific ones,
but there have been a lot of Acks. Also, b4 makes it easy to
merge the entire branch, so I'll just take all of these.

Applied to arm/defconfig, thanks!

[1/5] ARM: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
      commit: 0437141b4e2233ae0109a9584e7a003cd05b0a20
[2/5] arm64: defconfig: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
      commit: 717c4c8336486781630893508b3347ae18953fae
[3/5] MIPS: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
      commit: 2257682282531de45929c6006152f6e2ee881b42
[4/5] parisc: configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
      commit: 4e9c44b128d3eb5da129e53c7312240f838c2dbf
[5/5] powerpc/configs: drop unused BACKLIGHT_GENERIC option
      commit: 4985c506303fb6a41a885d503a6e1f3d3126431d

       Arnd



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list