The patch titled Subject: drivers/video/backlight/platform_lcd.c: introduce probe callback has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is drivers-video-backlight-platform_lcdc-introduce-probe-callback.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: drivers/video/backlight/platform_lcd.c: introduce probe callback Platform LCD devices may need to do some device-specific initialization before they can be used (regulator or GPIO setup, for example), but currently the driver does not support any way of doing this. This patch adds a probe() callback to plat_lcd_data which platform LCD devices can set to indicate that device-specific initialization is needed. Signed-off-by: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/backlight/platform_lcd.c | 6 ++++++ include/video/platform_lcd.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/video/backlight/platform_lcd.c~drivers-video-backlight-platform_lcdc-introduce-probe-callback drivers/video/backlight/platform_lcd.c --- a/drivers/video/backlight/platform_lcd.c~drivers-video-backlight-platform_lcdc-introduce-probe-callback +++ a/drivers/video/backlight/platform_lcd.c @@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ static int platform_lcd_probe(struct pla return -EINVAL; } + if (pdata->probe) { + err = pdata->probe(pdata); + if (err) + return err; + } + plcd = devm_kzalloc(&pdev->dev, sizeof(struct platform_lcd), GFP_KERNEL); if (!plcd) { diff -puN include/video/platform_lcd.h~drivers-video-backlight-platform_lcdc-introduce-probe-callback include/video/platform_lcd.h --- a/include/video/platform_lcd.h~drivers-video-backlight-platform_lcdc-introduce-probe-callback +++ a/include/video/platform_lcd.h @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ struct plat_lcd_data; struct fb_info; struct plat_lcd_data { + int (*probe)(struct plat_lcd_data *); void (*set_power)(struct plat_lcd_data *, unsigned int power); int (*match_fb)(struct plat_lcd_data *, struct fb_info *); }; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from abrestic@xxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch drivers-video-backlight-platform_lcdc-introduce-probe-callback.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html