Re: Patch "REMOVE OMAP LEGACY CODE: Reset mach-omap1/board-*.c files to mainline" breaks nokia770

[Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>]

* Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@nokia.com> [090513 17:33]:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:46:51AM +0200, ext Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> > Hi, I've just discovered that the patch at:
> > 
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3eae3ea7c443fc4330574dffea65b6f2f53a2574
> > 
> > Breaks the nokia770's framebuffer as it removes the platform data for  
> > the HWA742 LCD controller.
> > 
> > As the patch says "Patches against the mainline tree are welcome to  
> > add back the missing functionality if needed!", I'm happy to do this.
> > 
> > However, since I'm fairly new to the linux-omap project, is simply  
> > extracting the removed nokia770 code and generating a patch against  
> > the mainline kernel sufficient? or is there a newer style of some sort  
> > that should be adopted for this?
> 
> You can start by generating the new patch against mainline and running
> scripts/checkpatch.pl, then you should probably find out if there are
> any API changes and stuff like that. Then send the patch to lkml ccing
> linux-omap and let's see what comments do you get from those guys :-)

Please change the code to pass the struct clock to drivers/video/omap/hwa742.c
in hwa742_platform_data. The hw742.c can just do standard clk_enable/disable
there. Otherwise we won't be able to get this missing part to the mainline
kernel.

Regards,

Tony