[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Print pwm device-name when using pwm for backlight control

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Tue Jun 27 13:26:43 UTC 2017


Hi,

On 06/27/2017 11:52 AM, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 09:42:44AM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> On Bay Trail devices either the Crystal Cove PMIC's pwm or the LPSS'
>> pwm is used to control the backlight. Other drivers take core of
>> providing a backlight_pwm alias through pwm_add_table, but it is
>> still useful to know which pwm device actually ends up being used
>> for debugging backlight issues, so add a DRM_INFO logging the
>> pwm device-name.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c | 3 +++
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
>> index cb50c527401f..7936a64af393 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
>> @@ -1670,6 +1670,9 @@ static int pwm_setup_backlight(struct intel_connector *connector,
>>   				 CRC_PMIC_PWM_PERIOD_NS);
>>   	panel->backlight.enabled = panel->backlight.level != 0;
>>   
>> +	DRM_INFO("Using %s pwm-device for backlight control\n",
>> +		 dev_name(panel->backlight.pwm->chip->dev));
> 
> Is DRM_DEBUG_KMS() not enough?

I prefer DRM_INFO so that I can just ask users with backlight issues
to do a dmesg and then see which pwm controller is being used.

Regards,

Hans


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