Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] leds: leds-pwm: Convert to use devm_get_pwm

[Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org>]

On 12/11/2012 10:48 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:39:53AM +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>> On 12/11/2012 10:31 AM, Thierry Reding wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:57:51AM +0100, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>>> Okay, if there are no intree users that may be broken, then it should be
>>> fine to remove it. In that case you might want to remove the pwm_id
>>> field as well instead of deprecating it in this patch.
>>
>> The reason I marked the pwm_id as deprecated is to signal to out of tree users
>> (if any) that they should stop using it since it is going to go away in the
>> next cycle.
>> If we remove it right away the sdp4030 board file will not going to compile in
>> subsystem trees, only in linux-next.
> 
> Okay, go ahead then. As long as the field will be removed eventually
> that's fine with me.

Thank you and yes, it will be removed.

Probably it would be a good thing to check other places for legacy
pwm_request() users and prepare them to move to (devm_)pwm_get gracefully over
coming kernel releases.

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