Re: [PATCH 2/2] misc: hx8837: add a HiMax HX8837 display controller driver

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 03:39:29AM +0100, Lubomir Rintel wrote:
> HiMax HX8837 is a display controller used on OLPC platforms. It controls
> backlight and is able to capture and freeze a frame when the LCD controller
> (and the rest of the plaform) is powered off.
> 
> This driver is based on the same code as drivers/staging/olpc_dcon.
> I modernized it to use managed GPIO, device-tree bindings, sysfs attribtue
> groups, essentially fixing the staging driver's TODO.

You are creating custom sysfs files, with no Documentation/ABI/ update
for us to know what those files are or how they are used :(

Why do you need custom sysfs files in the first place?  Isn't there
already an api for this type of device in the kernel?

thanks,

greg k-h



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