[PATCH 0/8] ARM: SAMSUNG: Add common PWM Backlight support

Banajit Goswami banajit.goswami at gmail.com
Wed Jul 27 04:56:02 EDT 2011


Hi Dmitry,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
<dbaryshkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:12:40 +0530, Banajit Goswami wrote:
>
>> The patches are created against "for-next" branch of Kukjin Kim's tree
>> at:
>>  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung.git
>>
>>  Patch [1/8]
>>   -- add a common infrastructure to support PWM backlight for various
>>      Samsung boards.
>
> Why can't you use the drivers/video/backlight/pwm-bl.c ?
These patches indeed use the drivers/video/backlight/pwm-bl.c driver (do not
replace it), and provide board specific data from a common place.
The patches are meant to avoid any duplicate code which might be needed
for different Samsung boards.
>
> --
> With best wishes
> Dmitry
>
Thanks and Regards,
Banajit



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