Re: [PATCH v4 05/31] drm/nouveau: Don't register backlight when another backlight should be used (v2)

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Just one tiny nitpick below:

On Wed, 2022-08-24 at 14:14 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Before this commit when we want userspace to use the acpi_video backlight
> device we register both the GPU's native backlight device and acpi_video's
> firmware acpi_video# backlight device. This relies on userspace preferring
> firmware type backlight devices over native ones.
> 
> Registering 2 backlight devices for a single display really is
> undesirable, don't register the GPU's native backlight device when
> another backlight device should be used.
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Add nouveau_acpi_video_backlight_use_native() wrapper to avoid unresolved
>   symbol errors on non X86
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c      | 5 +++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.h      | 2 ++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c | 6 ++++++
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
> index 6140db756d06..1592c9cd7750 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.c
> @@ -386,3 +386,8 @@ nouveau_acpi_edid(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_connector *connector)
>  
>  	return kmemdup(edid, EDID_LENGTH, GFP_KERNEL);
>  }
> +
> +bool nouveau_acpi_video_backlight_use_native(void)
> +{
> +	return acpi_video_backlight_use_native();
> +}
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.h
> index 330f9b837066..3c666c30dfca 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_acpi.h
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ void nouveau_register_dsm_handler(void);
>  void nouveau_unregister_dsm_handler(void);
>  void nouveau_switcheroo_optimus_dsm(void);
>  void *nouveau_acpi_edid(struct drm_device *, struct drm_connector *);
> +bool nouveau_acpi_video_backlight_use_native(void);
>  #else
>  static inline bool nouveau_is_optimus(void) { return false; };
>  static inline bool nouveau_is_v1_dsm(void) { return false; };
> @@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ static inline void nouveau_register_dsm_handler(void) {}
>  static inline void nouveau_unregister_dsm_handler(void) {}
>  static inline void nouveau_switcheroo_optimus_dsm(void) {}
>  static inline void *nouveau_acpi_edid(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_connector *connector) { return NULL; }
> +static inline bool nouveau_acpi_video_backlight_use_native(void) { return true; }
>  #endif
>  
>  #endif
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
> index a2141d3d9b1d..d2b8f8c13db4 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
>  #include "nouveau_reg.h"
>  #include "nouveau_encoder.h"
>  #include "nouveau_connector.h"
> +#include "nouveau_acpi.h"
>  
>  static struct ida bl_ida;
>  #define BL_NAME_SIZE 15 // 12 for name + 2 for digits + 1 for '\0'
> @@ -405,6 +406,11 @@ nouveau_backlight_init(struct drm_connector *connector)
>  		goto fail_alloc;
>  	}
>  
> +	if (!nouveau_acpi_video_backlight_use_native()) {
> +		NV_INFO(drm, "Skipping nv_backlight registration\n");
> +		goto fail_alloc;
> +	}

We should probably make this say something like "No native backlight
interface, using ACPI instead" instead. With that fixed

Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>

> +
>  	if (!nouveau_get_backlight_name(backlight_name, bl)) {
>  		NV_ERROR(drm, "Failed to retrieve a unique name for the backlight interface\n");
>  		goto fail_alloc;

-- 
Cheers,
 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat




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