On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 3:04 PM Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Panels often supports backlight as specified in a device tree. > Update the drm_panel infrastructure to support this to > simplify the drivers. > > With this the panel driver just needs to add the following to the > probe() function: > > err = drm_panel_of_backlight(panel); > if (err) > return err; > > Then drm_panel will handle all the rest. > > There is one caveat with the backlight support. > If drm_panel_(enable|disable) are called multiple times > in row then backlight_(enable|disable) will be called multiple times. > > The above will happen when a panel drivers unconditionally > calls drm_panel_disable() in their shutdown() function, > whan the panel is already disabled and then shutdown() is called. > > Reading the backlight code it seems safe to call > the backlight_(enable|disable) several times. > > v3: v3 looks good to me +/- Laurent's comments: Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> Yours, Linus Walleij _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
