[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: make backlight functions take a connector v3

[Daniel Vetter]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org> wrote:
> But I don't want this fix (once I fix the locking) blocked on
> those tests, since they'll probably take me a few days and people are
> already using the original version, which is missing the locks for the
> backlight class and ASLE call sites.

btw for fixing the asle mutex_lock-in-irq-context issue we might want
to simply use a trylock - Iirc the opregion spec explicitly allows us
to abort the request as "driver busy with modeset ops". Imo both
approaches of either delaying the request to a workqueue or using the
asle return value feel equally risky wrt funky bioses doing stupid
things. In both cases we need to get real-world testing, but using the
trylock + abort is simpler in our own code ;-)
-Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch