Hi, On 11/4/21 09:29, Lee Jones wrote: > On Wed, 03 Nov 2021, Daniel Thompson wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 03, 2021 at 06:28:15PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On 11/3/21 18:17, Daniel Thompson wrote: >>>> On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 11:55:04PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: >>>>> The Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 tablet uses an ACPI enumerated LP8556 backlight >>>>> controller for its LCD-panel, with a Xiaomi specific ACPI HID of >>>>> "XMCC0001", add support for this. >>>>> >>>>> Note the new "if (id)" check also fixes a NULL pointer deref when a user >>>>> tries to manually bind the driver from sysfs. >>>>> >>>>> When CONFIG_ACPI is disabled acpi_match_device() will always return NULL, >>>>> so the lp855x_parse_acpi() call will get optimized away. >>>>> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> Thank you. >>> >>> So what is the process for upstreaming backlight patches, >>> do these go through drm-misc-next (in that case I can push >>> the series myself), or will you pick these up ? >> >> Lee Jones gathers up the backlight patches and sends a PR (but, except >> in exceptional cases, treats my R-b as a pre-requisite before doing so). > > Also the merge-window is open, so this is headed for v5.17. Right, I didn't expect anything else. Regards, Hans
