[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Use intel_panel_actually_set_backlight() to disable PWM backlight

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Wed Oct 24 16:33:17 UTC 2018


On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 05:02:18PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Ville Syrjala (2018-10-24 16:52:08)
> > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > Use intel_panel_actually_set_backlight() instead of a direct
> > call to pwm_config() in pwm_disable_backlight().
> > 
> > The main benefit is consistent debug logging when we turn off the
> > backlight. Currently we see nothing in dmesg which made me wonder
> > whether the backlight was even getting turned off properly.
> > 
> > The second benefit is consistency; This is what we do for all
> > the other backlight implementations.
> 
> It will also have the effect of calling
> intel_panel_compute_brightness(0) which one presumes is desired?

We do it for everything else so it must be good?

> 
> Just worrying if the inverted brightness quirk is ever used with pwm.

If we have to invert for normal operation I don't know why
we wouldn't want to invert when shutting down the backlight.

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel


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