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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@chromium.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>, Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@arm.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: add "max-brightness" property
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 09:34:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130813073415.GA9316@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1376345057-29895-1-git-send-email-abrestic@chromium.org>

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On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:04:17PM -0700, Andrew Bresticker wrote:
> Specifying each individual brightness value via the "brightness-levels"
> property can be a pain if we want to use a large continuous range of
> brightness values.  Add the property "max-brightness", which can be
> given in place of "brightness-levels", that specifies that all values
> between 0 and the given value can be used.

This was actually part of my first attempt at a DT binding for this
driver as well. Some discussion ensued and we ended up changing the
binding to what it is now. And I think there was even an attempt already
at adding the same thing you propose (albeit under a different name). So
instead of repeating myself I'll just point you at the earlier thread:

	https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/linux.kernel/UkXktWt6zI0

Thierry

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-08-13  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-12 22:04 [PATCH] pwm-backlight: add "max-brightness" property Andrew Bresticker
2013-08-12 22:43 ` Stephen Warren
2013-08-13  7:34 ` Thierry Reding [this message]

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