[PATCH v2 01/38] backlight/bd6107: Compare against struct fb_info.device

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at linaro.org
Mon Jun 12 15:00:50 UTC 2023


On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 04:07:39PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Struct bd6107_platform_data refers to a platform device within
> the Linux device hierarchy. The test in bd6107_backlight_check_fb()
> compares it against the fbdev device in struct fb_info.dev, which
> is different. Fix the test by comparing to struct fb_info.device.
> 
> Fixes a bug in the backlight driver and prepares fbdev for making
> struct fb_info.dev optional.
> 
> v2:
> 	* move renames into separate patch (Javier, Sam, Michael)
> 

Thanks.  This helps a lot.  I stared at this for a long time without
seeing the fix.  Then I misunderstood Sam's review comments (my fault,
they were clear in retrospect) so I got completely lost.

regards,
dan carpenter



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