From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 12:42:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm-backlight: Message-Id: <20140606124230.GQ24240@lee--X1> List-Id: References: <1402052529-22761-1-git-send-email-LW@KARO-electronics.de> In-Reply-To: <1402052529-22761-1-git-send-email-LW@KARO-electronics.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: Lothar =?iso-8859-1?Q?Wa=DFmann?= Cc: Bryan Wu , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Jingoo Han , Thierry Reding , Tomi Valkeinen , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 06 Jun 2014, Lothar Waßmann wrote: > commit 257462dbf3ed pwm-backlight: switch to gpiod interface > introduced a regression leading to acquiring a bogus GPIO-0 when > configured from DT without an 'enable-gpios' property. > The driver will happily accept the 0 initialized 'enable_gpio' member > of the struct platform_pwm_backlight_data as valid gpio number, and > request this GPIO as enable pin. In case of multiple driver instances, > the second will fail to register with the error message: > pwm-backlight backlight1.23: failed to request GPIO#0: -16 > > Fix this by setting enable_gpio in the pdata struct to -EINVAL. > > Signed-off-by: Lothar Waßmann > --- > drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c > index 38ca88b..3d265c4 100644 > --- a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c > +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c > @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ static int pwm_backlight_parse_dt(struct device *dev, > data->dft_brightness = value; > data->max_brightness--; > } > - > + data->enable_gpio = -EINVAL; > return 0; > } This patch doesn't look like it will apply. I suggest you pull v3.17-rc1 when it lands and rebase your patch. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog