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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>,
	Alex Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
	Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Leela Krishna Amudala <leelakrishna.a@gmail.com>,
	"linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org"
	<devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] Runtime Interpreted Power Sequences
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:57:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120821165738.GY7995@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345542860.4085.40.camel@deskari>

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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:54:20PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:

> However, if we already have a generic driver for that type of panel,
> (which we would need anyway for the DT based approach), the developer
> only needs to add the name of the panel and the data for the power
> sequence to the panel driver's database, which is about the same amount
> of work as with DT.

> So it's really just a question of where to put the data in question, DT
> or driver. Both contain the same data, and the data structure may also
> be the same. In DT's case it just needs to be parsed first, whereas in
> database case you'll enter the data in structs.

I think the device tree idiomatic way of doing this is to have a bunch
of .dtsi files for the panels which then get included by reference in
the board files.  This isn't helpful to people working on non-DT
architectures though.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-21 16:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-16  6:08 [PATCH v4 0/3] Runtime Interpreted Power Sequences Alexandre Courbot
2012-08-16  6:08 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] " Alexandre Courbot
2012-08-16  7:42   ` Thierry Reding
     [not found]     ` <20120816074232.GA17917-RM9K5IK7kjIQXX3q8xo1gnVAuStQJXxyR5q1nwbD4aMs9pC9oP6+/A@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-16  9:19       ` Alex Courbot
2012-08-16  9:52         ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-16 10:33           ` Alex Courbot
2012-08-16 10:52             ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-16 14:14   ` Mark Brown
2012-08-16 18:38   ` Stephen Warren
     [not found]     ` <502D3E29.1010501-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-16 18:47       ` Mark Brown
     [not found]         ` <20120816184703.GP15365-yzvPICuk2AATkU/dhu1WVueM+bqZidxxQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-16 18:57           ` Stephen Warren
     [not found]             ` <502D428F.1010901-3lzwWm7+Weoh9ZMKESR00Q@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-16 19:35               ` Stephen Warren
2012-08-16 21:10       ` Mitch Bradley
2012-08-17 23:04         ` Mark Brown
2012-08-16 19:49     ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-17  8:52     ` Alex Courbot
     [not found]   ` <1345097337-24170-2-git-send-email-acourbot-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-21  7:44     ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-08-21  8:22       ` Alex Courbot
2012-08-21  8:33         ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-21  8:53           ` Alex Courbot
2012-08-21  8:57           ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-08-21  9:13             ` Thierry Reding
     [not found]               ` <20120821091306.GA4819-RM9K5IK7kjIQXX3q8xo1gnVAuStQJXxyR5q1nwbD4aMs9pC9oP6+/A@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-21  9:54                 ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-08-21 16:57                   ` Mark Brown [this message]
     [not found]                     ` <20120821165738.GY7995-yzvPICuk2AATkU/dhu1WVueM+bqZidxxQQ4Iyu8u01E@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-22  5:42                       ` Thierry Reding
2012-08-24  9:24                   ` Alex Courbot
2012-08-24 10:34                     ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-08-16  6:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] pwm_backlight: use power sequences Alexandre Courbot
2012-08-16 18:42   ` Stephen Warren
2012-08-16  6:08 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] tegra: add pwm backlight device tree nodes Alexandre Courbot
     [not found]   ` <1345097337-24170-4-git-send-email-acourbot-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-16 18:45     ` Stephen Warren
     [not found] ` <1345097337-24170-1-git-send-email-acourbot-DDmLM1+adcrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2012-08-16 21:47   ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Runtime Interpreted Power Sequences Rafael J. Wysocki
2012-08-17  8:54     ` Alex Courbot

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