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>,
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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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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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