[PATCH v5 05/31] drm/nouveau: Don't register backlight when another backlight should be used (v2)

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Thu Aug 25 14:37:00 UTC 2022


Before this commit when we want userspace to use the acpi_video backlight
device we register both the GPU's native backlight device and acpi_video's
firmware acpi_video# backlight device. This relies on userspace preferring
firmware type backlight devices over native ones.

Registering 2 backlight devices for a single display really is
undesirable, don't register the GPU's native backlight device when
another backlight device should be used.

Changes in v2:
- Add nouveau_acpi_video_backlight_use_native() wrapper to avoid unresolved
  symbol errors on non X86

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c      | 5 +++++
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.h      | 2 ++
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c | 6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
index 6140db756d06..1592c9cd7750 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
@@ -386,3 +386,8 @@ nouveau_acpi_edid(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_connector *connector)
 
 	return kmemdup(edid, EDID_LENGTH, GFP_KERNEL);
 }
+
+bool nouveau_acpi_video_backlight_use_native(void)
+{
+	return acpi_video_backlight_use_native();
+}
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.h
index 330f9b837066..3c666c30dfca 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ void nouveau_register_dsm_handler(void);
 void nouveau_unregister_dsm_handler(void);
 void nouveau_switcheroo_optimus_dsm(void);
 void *nouveau_acpi_edid(struct drm_device *, struct drm_connector *);
+bool nouveau_acpi_video_backlight_use_native(void);
 #else
 static inline bool nouveau_is_optimus(void) { return false; };
 static inline bool nouveau_is_v1_dsm(void) { return false; };
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ static inline void nouveau_register_dsm_handler(void) {}
 static inline void nouveau_unregister_dsm_handler(void) {}
 static inline void nouveau_switcheroo_optimus_dsm(void) {}
 static inline void *nouveau_acpi_edid(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_connector *connector) { return NULL; }
+static inline bool nouveau_acpi_video_backlight_use_native(void) { return true; }
 #endif
 
 #endif
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
index a2141d3d9b1d..d2b8f8c13db4 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include "nouveau_reg.h"
 #include "nouveau_encoder.h"
 #include "nouveau_connector.h"
+#include "nouveau_acpi.h"
 
 static struct ida bl_ida;
 #define BL_NAME_SIZE 15 // 12 for name + 2 for digits + 1 for '\0'
@@ -405,6 +406,11 @@ nouveau_backlight_init(struct drm_connector *connector)
 		goto fail_alloc;
 	}
 
+	if (!nouveau_acpi_video_backlight_use_native()) {
+		NV_INFO(drm, "Skipping nv_backlight registration\n");
+		goto fail_alloc;
+	}
+
 	if (!nouveau_get_backlight_name(backlight_name, bl)) {
 		NV_ERROR(drm, "Failed to retrieve a unique name for the backlight interface\n");
 		goto fail_alloc;
-- 
2.37.2



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