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Date:   Fri, 21 Jan 2022 09:19:49 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] fbdev updates & fixes for v5.17-rc1
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On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, Jani Nikula wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Jan 2022, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 5:02 PM Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> A first bunch of updates and fixes for the following fbdev & backlight drivers:
> >> ocfb, aty128fb, mb862xx, omapfb, qcom-wled, dt-bindings, hyperv_fb,
> >> lm3630a_bl, omap2, controlfb, matroxfb
> >>
> >> Nothing really important, mostly cleanups, const conversions, added null
> >> pointer/boundary checks and build fixes.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> >
> > Not sure whether Linus missed this or just wanted to let the
> > discussion settle first. But since this is all random patches for
> > drivers that many distros don't even enable anymore there's no issues
> > here, and I very much welcome someone volunteering to pick these up.
> > I'd expect there's a pile more since it's been 1-2 years since Bart
> > took care of these and merged them consistently.
> >
> > Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> 
> ...
> 
> >>  drivers/video/backlight/lm3630a_bl.c                     |  1 -
> >>  drivers/video/backlight/qcom-wled.c                      |  1 +
> 
> Backlight changes usually go through the backlight tree.

Yes, they do.  How were these applied to the DRM tree?

I don't see any mails about them being applied:

  Luca Weiss (2):
        backlight: qcom-wled: Add PM6150L compatible

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20211229170358.2457006-2-luca.weiss@fairphone.com/

  Xu Wang (2):
        backlight: lm3630a_bl: Remove redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220113084806.13822-1-vulab@iscas.ac.cn/

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