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

[Jani Nikula]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2017, 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>
> Tested-by: Puthikorn Voravootivat <puthik at chromium.org>
> Fixes: e7156c833903 ("drm/i915: Add Backlight Control using DPCD for eDP connectors (v9)")
> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1497384239-2965-1-git-send-email-dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com
> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> (cherry picked from commit f6262bda462e81e959b80a96dac799bd9df27f73)

Pushed to drm-intel-fixes, thanks for the backport.

BR,
Jani.

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> index 6532e22..40ba313 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
> @@ -119,8 +119,6 @@ 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(connector);
> -
>  	if (intel_dp->edp_dpcd[2] & DP_EDP_BACKLIGHT_BRIGHTNESS_BYTE_COUNT)
>  		panel->backlight.max = 0xFFFF;
>  	else

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center