[PATCH v3 00/27] Add DM support for omap PWM backlight

[Felix Brack]

On 11.10.20 14:13, Dario Binacchi wrote:
> The series was born from the need to manage the PWM backlight of the
> display connected to my beaglebone board. To hit the target, I had to
> develop drivers for PWM management which in turn relied on drivers for
> managing timers and clocks, all developed according to the driver model.
> My intention was to use the SoC-specific API only at strictly necessary
> points in the code. My previous patches for migrating the AM335x display
> driver to the driver model had required the implementation of additional
> functions outside the concerns of the driver, (settings for dividing the
> pixel clock rate, configuring the display DPLL rate, ....) not being
> able to use the API of the related clock drivers. This series shouldn't
> have repeated the same kind of mistake. Furthermore, I also wanted to fix
> that kind of forced choice. Almost everything should have been accessible
> via the driver model API. In the series there are also some patches that
> could be submitted separately, but which I have however inserted to avoid
> applying future patches to incorporate them.
> With this last consideration, I hope I have convincingly justified the
> large number of patches in the series.
> 
> The patch enabling address translation into a CPU physical address from
> device-tree even in case of crossing levels with #size-cells = <0>, is
> crucial for the series. The previous implementation was unable to
> perform the address translation required by the am33xx device tree.
> I tried to apply in a conservative way as few changes as possible and
> to verify the execution of all the tests already developed, as well as
> the new ones I added for the new feature.
> 
> As recommended by Grygorii Strashko I have removed some patches to
> upload them in new different series:
> - [v2,01/30] clk: remove a redundant header
> - [v2,03/30] arch: sandbox: fix typo in clk.h
> - [v2,20/30] video: backlight: fix pwm's duty cycle calculation
> - [v2,21/30] video: backlight: fix pwm data structure description
> - [v2,22/30] dm: core: improve uclass_get_device_by_phandle_id() description
> - [v2,23/30] gpio: fix gpio_request_by_name() description
> 
> Grygorii suggested to remove also other patches that I have kept in the
> series to allow anyone who wants to be able to test it. Moreover after
> the addition of a patch that has largely changed the device tree. The
> patches removed are the one and only ones that do not affect the series
> in any way. I hope that the next version of this series will require
> only minimal changes allowing me to split it according to Grygorii's
> suggestions.
> ---- 

I must be missing something as this patch series does not apply without
errors to U-Boot master:

error: drivers/clk/clk-ti-am3-dpll-x2.c: No such file or directory
error: drivers/clk/clk-ti-am3-dpll.c: No such file or directory
error: drivers/clk/clk-ti-ctrl.c: No such file or directory
error: drivers/clk/clk-ti-divider.c: No such file or directory
error: drivers/clk/clk-ti-gate.c: No such file or directory
error: drivers/clk/clk-ti-mux.c: No such file or directory
error: drivers/clk/clk-ti.c: No such file or directory
error: drivers/clk/clk-ti.h: No such file or directory
error: drivers/video/tilcdc-panel.c: No such file or directory
error: drivers/video/tilcdc-panel.h: No such file or directory
error: drivers/video/tilcdc.c: No such file or directory
error: drivers/video/tilcdc.h: No such file or directory

Does it probably depend on some other patches?

regards, Felix