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SubjectRe: [RESEND PATCH v2 3/3] ARM: dts: imx28-cfa10036: Fix the reset gpio signal polarity
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On 10/09/2018 03:18 PM, Vokáč Michal wrote:
> On 9.10.2018 14:36, Fabio Estevam wrote:
>> Hi Michal,
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 5:30 AM Vokáč Michal <Michal.Vokac@ysoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry for the inconvenience :( Lesson learned..
>>>
>>> So in other words (no offense): broken drivers need to stay broken because
>>> users may already get used to the broken behavior?
>>
>> In order to keep the old dtb's working you could introduce a new
>> property (like reset-gpio-active-low, for example).
>>
>> Then the driver behavior can be made untouched for the old dtb's and
>> only new dtb's with this new property would have the correct GPIO
>> reset behavior.
>
> Thank you very much Fabio!
> I saw these xxx-active-low/high properties in many device tree
> sources wondering why the heck people use them when they could
> use GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW/HIGH. And this is the explanation.
>
> And I feel like an idiot once again: git grep -l "reset-active-low"
> first hit is:
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/ssd1307fb.txt
>
> Oooops.
> The weird thing is that usage of reset-active-low is documented
> in the example but it is not implemented.
>
> So the patch no.2 should be reverted and patch no.3 not applied at all.

OK, I've applied the patch below to fbdev-for-next tree.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics


From 64f83a816b27c7b5e026a74ecb5c61dbabfae997 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 15:18:42 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "video: ssd1307fb: Do not hard code active-low reset
sequence"

This reverts commit 9827f26374fb85e1811f2adbcc25c8a3992dbe7f.

On 10/09/2018 02:20 AM, Shawn Guo wrote:

> Well, it means the change breaks the ABI between kernel and device tree,
> e.g. the new kernel will not work with existing/installed DTBs.

Revert the change until DTB compatibility issue is resolved.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
---
drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
index 3b361bc..4061a20 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/ssd1307fb.c
@@ -667,10 +667,10 @@ static int ssd1307fb_probe(struct i2c_client *client,

if (par->reset) {
/* Reset the screen */
- gpiod_set_value_cansleep(par->reset, 1);
- udelay(4);
gpiod_set_value_cansleep(par->reset, 0);
udelay(4);
+ gpiod_set_value_cansleep(par->reset, 1);
+ udelay(4);
}

if (par->vbat_reg) {
--
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