Thread (28 messages) 28 messages, 6 authors, 2012-07-09

Re: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: add regulator and GPIO support

From: Thierry Reding <hidden>
Date: 2012-06-30 18:37:55
Also in: linux-tegra, lkml

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:22:47PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
Add support for an optional power regulator and enable/disable GPIO.
This scheme is commonly used in embedded systems.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
I've added some comments in addition to those by Stephen.

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diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
index 057389d..821e03e 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
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@@ -141,11 +178,14 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device *dev,
 		data->max_brightness--;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * TODO: Most users of this driver use a number of GPIOs to control
-	 *       backlight power. Support for specifying these needs to be
-	 *       added.
-	 */
+	ret = of_get_named_gpio(node, "enable-gpios", 0);
+	if (ret >= 0) {
+		data->enable_gpio = of_get_named_gpio(node, "enable-gpios", 0);
Can't you just reuse the value of ret here?

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@@ -231,6 +271,22 @@ static int pwm_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (data->pwm_period_ns > 0)
 		pwm_set_period(pb->pwm, data->pwm_period_ns);
 
+
+	pb->power_reg = devm_regulator_get(&pdev->dev, "power");
+	if (IS_ERR(pb->power_reg))
+		return PTR_ERR(pb->power_reg);
+
+	pb->enable_gpio = -EINVAL;
Perhaps initialize this to -1? Assigning standard error codes to a GPIO
doesn't make much sense.

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diff --git a/include/linux/pwm_backlight.h b/include/linux/pwm_backlight.h
index 56f4a86..5ae2cd0 100644
--- a/include/linux/pwm_backlight.h
+++ b/include/linux/pwm_backlight.h
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ struct platform_pwm_backlight_data {
 	void (*notify_after)(struct device *dev, int brightness);
 	void (*exit)(struct device *dev);
 	int (*check_fb)(struct device *dev, struct fb_info *info);
+	/* optional GPIO that enables/disables the backlight */
+	int enable_gpio;
+	/* 0 (default initialization value) is a valid GPIO number. Make use of
+	 * control gpio explicit to avoid bad surprises. */
+	bool use_enable_gpio;
It's a shame we have to add workarounds like this...

Also the canonical form to write multi-line comments would be:

	/*
	 * 0 (default ...
	 * ... surprises.
	 */

Thierry

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