Re: [PATCH] pwm-backlight:

[Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.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 <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
> ---
>  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.

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