# Re: \[PATCH RFT 0/4\] backlight: gpio: simplify the driver

- From: Daniel Thompson \<hidden\>
- Date: 2019-07-02 09:14:18 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2019/07/5645669
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-sh/2019/06/5643244/t.md

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On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:15:10AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 11:03 AM Bartosz Golaszewski [ref] wrote:
> 
> > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <redacted>
> >
> > While working on my other series related to gpio-backlight[1] I noticed
> > that we could simplify the driver if we made the only user of platform
> > data use GPIO lookups and device properties. This series tries to do
> > that.
> >
> > The first patch sets up all the required structures in the board file,
> > the second modifies the backlight driver, the third and fourth remove
> > the leftovers.
> >
> > This series depends on the three first patches from [1].
> >
> > I don't have access to this HW but hopefully this works. Only compile
> > tested.
> 
> This series:
> Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>
> 
> Excellent work!

Ditto!

Hope to see this come around again alongside the other GPIO clean ups.


Daniel.
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