[PATCH v2 0/25] drm/panel infrastructure + backlight update

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2019 at 03:03:28PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> This patchset include a couple of different
> things - all related to panels.
> 
> - The callbacks are optional - so drop error if
>   callback is not present.
>  
> - Add support for backlight in drm_panel.
>   This allows us to make much simpler backlight
>   support to most panels.
>   The patchset include conversion of most of the
>   trivial cases.
> 
> - Drop drm_connector from drm_panel.
>   This change required many changes to most
>   panels and many bridges and display drivers.
>   This is by far the most invasive change in this patchset.
> 
> With this patchset drm_panel_(attach|detach) are nop's
> but they are kept for now.
> 
> A few of these patches has been sent out before - but versioning
> started again from v1 - as the most patches are new.
> 
> I have tested the panel-simple changes, and thus some
> of the infrastructure changes.
> The testing was done on an earlier iteration - and I ended
> up submitting this as Laurent and others started to depend on it.
> 
> v2:
>   This is mostly addressing comments from Laurent.
>   - drop get_timings removal, we should start using it
>   - do not fail in drm_panel_of_backlight() if DT is not enabled
>   - updated changelogs and code comments in many places (thanks Laurent!)
>   - get_modes is a mandatory callback - return -EOPNOTSUPP if not specified
>   - log if backlight update fails
>   - added a-b/r-bs
>     o thanks to Laurent and Linus for the prompt reviews!
> 
> When "drm/panel: add backlight support" is reviewed I plan to
> apply the full series to drm-misc-next.

Fixed the last bits pointed out by Laurent and pushed to drm-misc-next.

	Sam