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From: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: axel.lin@gmail.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm00@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: Rename corgibl_limit_intensity to genericbl_limit_intensity
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:44:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1317379490.12332.145.camel@ted> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF+7xWkQ6SX9aUjBuaCgNVwKoiaBoV6gXfOYfw3MBf9B2c_wiA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 07:45 +0800, Axel Lin wrote:
> >> Why does corgibl_limit_intensity/genericbl_limit_intensity exist?
> >> Nothing in the tree references it?
> >
> > It sounds like someone has removed the sharpsl battery driver which did
> > use this. If this hook isn't used, low battery with high screen
> > backlight values will reset the device as the wiring isn't up to the
> > current draw.
> >
> It is removed by commit 13a542475d1c62a12c77abfa83a790245598fc61
> Author: Christoph Egger <siccegge@cs.fau.de>
> Date:   Sun Jul 4 23:24:52 2010 +0800
> 
>     [ARM] pxa: removing dead BACKLIGHT_CORGI
> 
>     BACKLIGHT_CORGI was later renamed to BACKLIGHT_GENERIC and has not been
>     used since then. As it's now safe to completely transition to LCD_CORGI
>     driver, which incorprates both the LCD and backlight device.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge@cs.fau.de>
>     Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
> 
> So, should we remove corgibl_limit_intensity/genericbl_limit_intensity
> since now it is not being used?

Does that code workaround the hardware issue I mention? I suspect not.
It seems nobody cares about that at this point though...

Cheers,

Richard


      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-30 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-25  2:12 [PATCH] backlight: Rename corgibl_limit_intensity to genericbl_limit_intensity Axel Lin
2011-09-29 20:00 ` Andrew Morton
2011-09-29 20:22   ` Richard Purdie
2011-09-29 23:45     ` Axel Lin
2011-09-30 10:44       ` Richard Purdie [this message]

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