[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Don't enable backlight at setup time.

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:18:42PM -0700, Puthikorn Voravootivat wrote:
> I tested this on actual system and it is working fine.

Thank you everyone. Patch pushed to dinq.

> 
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:03 PM, Dhinakaran Pandiyan <
> dhinakaran.pandiyan at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Maarten and Ville noticed that we are enabling backlight via DP aux very
> > early in the modeset_init path via the intel_dp_aux_setup_backlight()
> > function, since commit e7156c833903 ("drm/i915: Add Backlight Control using
> > DPCD for eDP connectors (v9)"). Looks like all we need to do during
> > _setup_backlight() is read the current brightness state instead of
> > modifying it.
> >
> > v2: Rewrote commit message.
> >
> > Cc: Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> > Cc: Yetunde Adebisi <yetundex.adebisi at intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan at intel.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> > Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c | 10 ----------
> >  1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > index 6cc6298..228ca06 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> > @@ -80,10 +80,6 @@ static uint32_t intel_dp_aux_get_backlight(struct
> > intel_connector *connector)
> >  static void
> >  intel_dp_aux_set_backlight(const struct drm_connector_state *conn_state,
> > u32 level)
> >  {
> > -       /*
> > -        * conn_state->best_encoder is likely NULL when called from
> > -        * intel_dp_aux_setup_backlight()
> > -        */
> >         struct intel_connector *connector = to_intel_connector(conn_state-
> > >connector);
> >         struct intel_dp *intel_dp = enc_to_intel_dp(&connector->
> > encoder->base);
> >         uint8_t vals[2] = { 0x0 };
> > @@ -106,10 +102,6 @@ static void intel_dp_aux_enable_backlight(const
> > struct intel_crtc_state *crtc_st
> >                                           const struct drm_connector_state
> > *conn_state)
> >  {
> >         struct intel_connector *connector = to_intel_connector(conn_state-
> > >connector);
> > -       /*
> > -        * conn_state->best_encoder (and crtc_state) are NULL when called
> > from
> > -        * intel_dp_aux_setup_backlight()
> > -        */
> >         struct intel_dp *intel_dp = enc_to_intel_dp(&connector->
> > encoder->base);
> >         uint8_t dpcd_buf = 0;
> >         uint8_t edp_backlight_mode = 0;
> > @@ -156,8 +148,6 @@ static int intel_dp_aux_setup_backlight(struct
> > intel_connector *connector,
> >         struct intel_dp *intel_dp = enc_to_intel_dp(&connector->
> > encoder->base);
> >         struct intel_panel *panel = &connector->panel;
> >
> > -       intel_dp_aux_enable_backlight(NULL, connector->base.state);
> > -
> >         if (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[2] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS_
> > BYTE_COUNT)
> >                 panel->backlight.max = 0xFFFF;
> >         else
> > --
> > 2.7.4
> >
> >

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC