[PATCH 3/6] backlight/omap1-bl: Replace FB_BLANK_ states with simple on/off
Sam Ravnborg
sam at ravnborg.org
Wed Mar 13 18:00:27 UTC 2024
Hi Thomas,
On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 04:45:02PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> The backlight is on for fb_blank eq FB_BLANK_UNBLANK, or off for
> any other value in fb_blank. But the field fb_blank in struct
> backlight_properties is deprecated and should not be used any
> longer.
>
> Replace the test for fb_blank in omap's backlight code with a
> simple boolean parameter and push the test into the update_status
> helper. Instead of reading fb_blank directly, decode the backlight
> device's status with backlight_is_blank().
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
My biased opinion is that the approach in this patch is a little bit
better:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230107-sam-video-backlight-drop-fb_blank-v1-13-1bd9bafb351f@ravnborg.org/
I never came around resending this series it seems.
Sam
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