[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 2/5] i915: Add native backlight control

Andrew Morton akpm at linux-foundation.org
Thu Jan 20 15:13:49 PST 2011


On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:43:46 +0330
Ali Gholami Rudi <aliqrudi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ali Gholami Rudi <aliqrudi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I tried to apply this patch but I get:
> > 
> > 	drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c: In function 'intel_panel_setup_backlight':
> > 	drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c:319: error: 'struct backlight_properties' has no member named 'type'
> > 	drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c:319: error: 'BACKLIGHT_RAW' undeclared (first use in this function)
> > 	drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c:319: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > 	drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c:319: error: for each function it appears in.)
> 
> After applying patch 1/5, the patch applied cleanly.
> Now I can change the brightness using
> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness.
> So it does fix my issue.
> 

So we have a patch ordering issue and the
radeon-expose-backlight-class-device-for-legacy-lvds-encoder.patch
build error.

Matthew, I'll drop 'em all for now.


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