Hi Daniel, On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 18/04/17 09:46, Paul Kocialkowski wrote: >> Le lundi 17 avril 2017 à 21:36 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit : >>> On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Paul Kocialkowski <contact@xxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>>> Le dimanche 16 avril 2017 à 22:55 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven a écrit : >>>>> On Sun, Apr 16, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Paul Kocialkowski <contact@xxxxxxxx> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> The move to a dedicated pwm_backlight_initial_power_state function in >>>>>> commit 7613c922315e308a6486d802abed2eb74443dffd modified the condition >>>>>> to set the enable gpio as output. This breaks specific use cases using >>>>>> that GPIO, such as tegra124-based nyan Chromebooks where backlight >>>>>> stopped working. >>>>>> >>>>>> This puts the condition back to the way it was before the move. >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Paul Kocialkowski <contact@xxxxxxxx> >>>>> >>>>> Does "[PATCH v2] backlight: pwm_bl: Fix GPIO out for unimplemented >>>>> .get_direction()" >>>>> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/4/225) fix your issue? >>>> >>>> This definitely solves the issue! >>>> >>>> Since this fixes broken backlight (that, in turn, makes systems >>>> unusable), >>>> perhaps this should be included in the next rc cycle? >>> >>> You mean v4.11 final, as there probably won't be another rc? >>> Yes! >> >> I'm all for it! > > Thanks for keeping our attention on this. I sent a PR yesterday (and hope my > GPG key has attracted enough signatures). Thank you, this morning I had already noticed it went upstream. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
