Re: [PATCH v4 11/31] drm/i915: Call acpi_video_register_backlight() (v2)

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Hi,

On 8/24/22 14:47, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2022, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On machins without an i915 opregion the acpi_video driver immediately
>> probes the ACPI video bus and used to also immediately register
>> acpi_video# backlight devices when supported.
>>
>> Once the drm/kms driver then loaded later and possibly registered
>> a native backlight device then the drivers/acpi/video_detect.c code
>> unregistered the acpi_video0 device to avoid there being 2 backlight
>> devices (when acpi_video_get_backlight_type()==native).
>>
>> This means that userspace used to briefly see 2 devices and the
>> disappearing of acpi_video0 after a brief time confuses the systemd
>> backlight level save/restore code, see e.g.:
>> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269920
>>
>> To fix this the ACPI video code has been modified to make backlight class
>> device registration a separate step, relying on the drm/kms driver to
>> ask for the acpi_video backlight registration after it is done setting up
>> its native backlight device.
>>
>> Add a call to the new acpi_video_register_backlight() after the i915 calls
>> acpi_video_register() (after setting up the i915 opregion) so that the
>> acpi_video backlight devices get registered on systems where the i915
>> native backlight device is not registered.
>>
>> Changes in v2:
>> -Only call acpi_video_register_backlight() when a panel is detected
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c | 8 ++++++++
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c   | 3 +++
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h              | 2 ++
>>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
>> index 6103b02c081f..2bb53efdb149 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display.c
>> @@ -9088,6 +9088,14 @@ void intel_display_driver_register(struct drm_i915_private *i915)
>>  	/* Must be done after probing outputs */
>>  	intel_opregion_register(i915);
>>  	acpi_video_register();
>> +	/*
>> +	 * Only call this if i915 is driving the internal panel. If the internal
>> +	 * panel is not driven by i915 then another GPU driver may still register
>> +	 * a native backlight driver later and this should only be called after
>> +	 * any native backlights have been registered.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (i915->have_panel)
>> +		acpi_video_register_backlight();
> 
> Apologies for procrastinating the review.
> 
> Please let's not add new flags like have_panel to i915; we're trying to
> clean it up instead.
> 
> The code here needs to iterate over the connectors to decide. Maybe
> better abstracted a function.

So something like add a i915_have_panel() helper which iterates over all
the connectors and then of 1 of them is of the LVDS / eDP / DSI type
return true ?

Regards,

Hans



>>  	intel_audio_init(i915);
>>  
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c
>> index 237a40623dd7..4536c527f50c 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_panel.c
>> @@ -646,8 +646,11 @@ intel_panel_mode_valid(struct intel_connector *connector,
>>  
>>  int intel_panel_init(struct intel_connector *connector)
>>  {
>> +	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = to_i915(connector->base.dev);
>>  	struct intel_panel *panel = &connector->panel;
>>  
>> +	dev_priv->have_panel = true;
>> +
>>  	intel_backlight_init_funcs(panel);
>>  
>>  	drm_dbg_kms(connector->base.dev,
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
>> index 69ce6db6a7c1..14b0dcaf25c2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h
>> @@ -756,6 +756,8 @@ struct drm_i915_private {
>>  
>>  	bool ipc_enabled;
>>  
>> +	bool have_panel;
>> +
>>  	struct intel_audio_private audio;
>>  
>>  	struct i915_pmu pmu;
> 




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