As talked about in commit d2aacaf07395 ("drm/panel: Check for already prepared/enabled in drm_panel"), we want to remove needless code from panel drivers that was storing and double-checking the prepared/enabled state. Even if someone was relying on the double-check before, that double-check is now in the core and not needed in individual drivers. For the "otm8009a" driver we fully remove the storing of the "enabled" state and we remove the double-checking, but we still keep the storing of the "prepared" state since the backlight code in the driver checks it. This backlight code may not be perfectly safe since there doesn't appear to be sufficient synchronization between the backlight driver (which userspace can call into directly) and the code that's unpreparing the panel. However, this lack of safety is not new and can be addressed in a future patch. Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- >From quick inspection, I think the right way to handle the backlight properly is: 1. Start calling backlight_get_brightness() instead of directly getting "bd->props.brightness" and bd->props.power. This should return 0 for a disabled (or blanked or powered off) backlight. 2. Cache the backlight level in "struct otm8009a" 3. If the backlight isn't changing compared to the cached value, make otm8009a_backlight_update_status() a no-op. 4. Remove the caching of the "prepared" value. That should work and always be safe because we always enable/disable the backlight in the panel's enable() and disable() functions. The backlight core has proper locking in this case. A disabled backlight will always return a level of 0 which will always make the backlight's update_status a no-op when the panel is disabled and keep us from trying to talk to the panel when it's off. Userspace can't directly cause a backlight to be enabled/disabled, it can only affect the other blanking modes. .../gpu/drm/panel/panel-orisetech-otm8009a.c | 17 ----------------- 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-orisetech-otm8009a.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-orisetech-otm8009a.c index 898b892f1143..93183f30d7d6 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-orisetech-otm8009a.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-orisetech-otm8009a.c @@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ struct otm8009a { struct gpio_desc *reset_gpio; struct regulator *supply; bool prepared; - bool enabled; }; static const struct drm_display_mode modes[] = { @@ -267,9 +266,6 @@ static int otm8009a_disable(struct drm_panel *panel) struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi = to_mipi_dsi_device(ctx->dev); int ret; - if (!ctx->enabled) - return 0; /* This is not an issue so we return 0 here */ - backlight_disable(ctx->bl_dev); ret = mipi_dsi_dcs_set_display_off(dsi); @@ -282,8 +278,6 @@ static int otm8009a_disable(struct drm_panel *panel) msleep(120); - ctx->enabled = false; - return 0; } @@ -291,9 +285,6 @@ static int otm8009a_unprepare(struct drm_panel *panel) { struct otm8009a *ctx = panel_to_otm8009a(panel); - if (!ctx->prepared) - return 0; - if (ctx->reset_gpio) { gpiod_set_value_cansleep(ctx->reset_gpio, 1); msleep(20); @@ -311,9 +302,6 @@ static int otm8009a_prepare(struct drm_panel *panel) struct otm8009a *ctx = panel_to_otm8009a(panel); int ret; - if (ctx->prepared) - return 0; - ret = regulator_enable(ctx->supply); if (ret < 0) { dev_err(panel->dev, "failed to enable supply: %d\n", ret); @@ -341,13 +329,8 @@ static int otm8009a_enable(struct drm_panel *panel) { struct otm8009a *ctx = panel_to_otm8009a(panel); - if (ctx->enabled) - return 0; - backlight_enable(ctx->bl_dev); - ctx->enabled = true; - return 0; } -- 2.41.0.585.gd2178a4bd4-goog