On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:04:43PM -0700, Alexandru Stan wrote:
> The extra 0 only adds one point in the userspace visible range,
> so this change is almost a noop with the current driver behavior.
>
> We don't need the 0% point, userspace seems to handle this just fine
> because it uses the bl_power property to turn off the display.
>
> Furthermore after adding "backlight: pwm_bl: Fix interpolation" patch,
> the backlight interpolation will work a little differently. So we need
> to preemptively remove the 0-3 segment since otherwise we would have a
> 252 long interpolation that would slowly go between 0 and 3, looking
> really bad in userspace. So it's almost a noop/cleanup now, but it will
> be required in the future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Stan <amstan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-jaq.dts | 2 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-minnie.dts | 2 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-tiger.dts | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-jaq.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-jaq.dts
> index af77ab20586d..4a148cf1defc 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-jaq.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-jaq.dts
> @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ / {
>
> &backlight {
> /* Jaq panel PWM must be >= 3%, so start non-zero brightness at 8 */
> - brightness-levels = <0 8 255>;
> + brightness-levels = <8 255>;
> num-interpolated-steps = <247>;
> };
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-minnie.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-minnie.dts
> index f8b69e0a16a0..82fc6fba9999 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-minnie.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-minnie.dts
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ volum_up {
>
> &backlight {
> /* Minnie panel PWM must be >= 1%, so start non-zero brightness at 3 */
> - brightness-levels = <0 3 255>;
> + brightness-levels = <3 255>;
> num-interpolated-steps = <252>;
> };
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-tiger.dts b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-tiger.dts
> index 069f0c2c1fdf..52a84cbe7a90 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-tiger.dts
> +++ b/arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-tiger.dts
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ / {
>
> &backlight {
> /* Tiger panel PWM must be >= 1%, so start non-zero brightness at 3 */
> - brightness-levels = <0 3 255>;
> + brightness-levels = <3 255>;
> num-interpolated-steps = <252>;
> };
>
> --
> 2.28.0
