On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Kumar, Shobhit <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2015-03-09 at 18:15 +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Kumar, Shobhit <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > There are actually two lines for Panel Power control and Backlight >> > enable/disable. I have already moved towards adding a new Cell device >> > for PWM child device and a new pwm driver for the same. That will take >> > care of backlight thingy. But for the Panel power control, I am at loss >> > for how best to program that. >> >> Isn't it just a very simple regulator (just on/off of fixed voltage) cell? >> > > It is just behaving as an output GPIO line and for that reason I feel > that rather than adding a new regulator driver,
I disagree. GPIO reads "general purpose input/output". This is not a GPIO, this is a special purpose thing and IMO it should be modeled directly as a regulator. Yours, Linus Walleij _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
