Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] backlight: fix device-tree node lookups

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Fri May 11 2018 - 03:28:13 EST


Hi Lee,

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 11:45:43AM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> A number of drivers have been using the wrong OF helper when doing child-node
> lookups during probe. This meant that they were doing tree-wide searches rather
> than matching on child nodes and that the parent node could end up being
> prematurely freed.

> Johan Hovold (4):
> backlight: as3711_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
> backlight: max8925_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
> backlight: tps65217_bl: fix device-tree node lookup
> backlight: as3711_bl: fix device-tree node leaks

It appears these four have been sitting in your for-backlight-fixes
branch for half a year now without being forwarded to Linus.

Don't get many backlight fixes these days, huh? ;)

Thanks,
Johan