Re: [PATCH 09/10] backlight: qcom-wled: Consistently use enabled-strings in set_brightness

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On Mon, Oct 04, 2021 at 09:27:40PM +0200, Marijn Suijten wrote:
> The hardware is capable of controlling any non-contiguous sequence of
> LEDs specified in the DT using qcom,enabled-strings as u32
> array, and this also follows from the DT-bindings documentation.  The
> numbers specified in this array represent indices of the LED strings
> that are to be enabled and disabled.
> 
> Its value is appropriately used to setup and enable string modules, but
> completely disregarded in the set_brightness paths which only iterate
> over the number of strings linearly.
> Take an example where only string 2 is enabled with
> qcom,enabled_strings=<2>: this string is appropriately enabled but
> subsequent brightness changes would have only touched the zero'th
> brightness register because num_strings is 1 here.  This is simply
> addressed by looking up the string for this index in the enabled_strings
> array just like the other codepaths that iterate over num_strings.

This isn't true until patch 10 is applied!

Given both patches fix the same issue in different functions I'd prefer
these to be squashed together (and doubly so because the autodetect code
uses set_brightness() as a helper function).


Daniel.



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