Re: [V3] drm/i915: Enable VBT based BL control for DP

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On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 11:43:57AM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Quoting Mustaffa, Mustamin B (2018-02-20 08:44:45)
> >> Hi Chris, 
> >> 
> >> Would you rather for me to use following line instead? 
> >> 
> >> +       int backlight_controller = intel_dp->attached_connector->panel.backlight.controller;
> >
> > I think so, Jani would be best to answer the question about how
> > vbt/panel tie together with backlight and which is meant to be used.
> 
> We discussed this previously, and the following sequence would lead to
> panel.backlight.controller being used uninitialized in
> bxt_power_sequencer_idx because it gets set at
> intel_panel_setup_backlight:
> 
> - intel_edp_init_connector
>   +- intel_dp_pps_init
>   |  +- intel_dp_init_panel_power_sequencer_registers
>   |     +- intel_pps_get_registers
>   |        +- bxt_power_sequencer_idx
>   +- intel_panel_setup_backlight
> 
> I decided it wasn't worth blocking a reasonable fix (that might warrant
> cc: stable actually) on a refactoring. We can (and should) do the
> refactoring later though.

Oh! please ignore the email I just sent...
I hadn't noticed this discussion here before...

So, with this info here:
Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@xxxxxxxxx>

> 
> BR,
> Jani.
> 
> 
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> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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