On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 06:57:44PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
Some device drivers (panel backlights especially) need to follow precise
sequences for powering on and off, involving gpios, regulators, PWMs
with a precise powering order and delays to respect between each steps.
These sequences are board-specific, and do not belong to a particular
driver - therefore they have been performed by board-specific hook
functions to far.
It does make me a little sad that the DT bindings need to specify the
number of steps but otherwise this looks good (modulo the minor comments
Stephen had as well):
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <redacted>
I think regardless of the current discussion about some of the
applications (like pwm-backlight) there are going to be cases where this
is useful even if it ends up being more as library code for drivers than
as something that users work with directly.