Bootloader may leave gpio direction as input and gpio value as logical low. It hints that initial backlight power state should be FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN since the gpio value is literally logical low. So, let's drop output gpio direction check and only check gpio value to set the initial power state. Signed-off-by: Liu Ying <victor.liu@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c index d3bea42407f1..d28c30b2a35d 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c @@ -87,8 +87,7 @@ static int gpio_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev) /* Not booted with device tree or no phandle link to the node */ bl->props.power = def_value ? FB_BLANK_UNBLANK : FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN; - else if (gpiod_get_direction(gbl->gpiod) == 0 && - gpiod_get_value_cansleep(gbl->gpiod) == 0) + else if (gpiod_get_value_cansleep(gbl->gpiod) == 0) bl->props.power = FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN; else bl->props.power = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK; -- 2.37.1
