[DPU PATCH 2/2] drm/panel: add backlight control support for truly panel

[Sean Paul]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 01:59:29PM -0700, abhinavk at codeaurora.org wrote:
> Hi Sean
> 
> Thanks for the comments.
> 
> Some replies inline.
> 
> On 2018-04-13 13:46, Sean Paul wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 07, 2018 at 12:06:53AM -0700, Abhinav Kumar wrote:
> > > Register truly panel as a backlight led device and
> > > provide methods to control its backlight operation.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Abhinav Kumar <abhinavk at codeaurora.org>
> > > ---

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> > > +	if (!ctx->backlight) {
> > > +		memset(&props, 0, sizeof(props));
> > > +		props.type = BACKLIGHT_RAW;
> > > +		props.power = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK;
> > > +		props.max_brightness = 4096;
> > > +
> > > +		snprintf(bl_node_name, BL_NODE_NAME_SIZE, "panel%u-backlight",
> > > +				 PRIM_DISPLAY_NODE);
> > 
> > Given that PRIM_DISPLAY_NODE is always 0, this seems like overkill for a
> > pretty
> > generic name "panel0-backlight". So let's just call it "truly_backlight"
> > in the
> > register call.
> > 
> [Abhinav] The reason for keeping it "panel0-backlight" is because userspace
> is using
> this node name to write the backlight. Changing the name will need more
> changes in our
> userspace.
> 

Unless the userspace is opensource (I'm guessing it's not?), that's not
something we need to code around. It sounds like this is mostly a moot point
given Bjorn's comments on the v2.

Sean

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Sean Paul, Software Engineer, Google / Chromium OS