On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 8:40 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 6:34 PM Karol Herbst <kherbst@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 6:31 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 7/23/21 8:15 AM, Karol Herbst wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 5:10 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > what's actually the use case of compiling with > > > > CONFIG_DRM_NOUVEAU_BACKLIGHT=n anyway? > > > > > > Dunno. In this case it was just a randconfig. Still, it needs to be > > > handled in some way - such as the other suggestion in this thread. > > > > > > > sure, I was just curious if there was a specific use case or just > > something random as you mentioned. > > I think this is purely done because of tradition. A long time ago, we had > tiny framebuffer drivers and most PCs did not have backlights, so it > made sense to leave this optional. > > This was probably just always carried over. > > Arnd > okay. I think I will write a patch for nouveau then and send it out soonish
