On Tue 17 Apr 11:21 PDT 2018, abhinavk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On 2018-04-16 23:13, Bjorn Andersson wrote: [..] > > If the panel isn't actually a piece of backlight hardware then it should > > not register a backlight device. Why do you need your own sysfs? > > > > Regards, > > Bjorn > [Abhinav] This particular panel isnt a piece of backlight hardware. > But, we want to have our own sysfs to give flexibility to our userspace > to write and read stuff for its proprietary uses. Please be more specific in your replies, no one will accept code that "does stuff" and expecting a reviewer to spend time guessing or pulling the information out of you is a sure way to get your patches ignored. Exactly what kind of stuff are you talking about here and exactly which problem are you solving. > Thats how our downstream has been working so far and hence to maintain > the compatibility would like to have it. Make your proprietary code work with the upstream kernel and you shouldn't ever have to modify it. Regards, Bjorn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
