On Wed, 13 Mar 2024, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello Thomas, > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 05:22:33PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > > Backlight drivers implement struct backlight_ops.check_fb, which > > uses struct fb_info in its interface. Replace the callback with one > > that does not use fb_info. > > > > In DRM, we have several drivers that implement backlight support. By > > including <linux/backlight.h> these drivers depend on <linux/fb.h>. > > At the same time, fbdev is deprecated for new drivers and likely to > > be replaced on many systems. > > > > This patchset is part of a larger effort to implement the backlight > > code without depending on fbdev. > > > > Patch 1 makes the backlight core match backlight and framebuffer > > devices via struct fb_info.bl_dev. Patches 2 to 9 then go through > > drivers and remove unnecessary implementations of check_fb. Finally, > > patch 10 replaces the check_fb hook with controls_device, which > > uses the framebuffer's Linux device instead of the framebuffer. > > I assume the merge plan for this series is via drm-misc in one go? Backlight in one go. This will be the second attempt at applying it. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯]
