This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/nouveau/kms: Fix backlight registration
to the 6.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drm-nouveau-kms-fix-backlight-registration.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.2 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit fe80389cdc027953ad4e246895a76d9e6336567e
Author: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun Mar 26 22:54:33 2023 +0200
drm/nouveau/kms: Fix backlight registration
[ Upstream commit 30fb97ba4a8e082ba0a5432479d6995472edbd7b ]
The nouveau code used to call drm_fb_helper_initial_config() from
nouveau_fbcon_init() before calling drm_dev_register(). This would
probe all connectors so that drm_connector->status could be used during
backlight registration which runs from nouveau_connector_late_register().
After commit 4a16dd9d18a0 ("drm/nouveau/kms: switch to drm fbdev helpers")
the fbdev emulation code, which now is a drm-client, can only run after
drm_dev_register(). So during backlight registration the connectors are
not probed yet and the drm_connector->status == connected check in
nv50_backlight_init() would now always fail.
Replace the drm_connector->status == connected check with
a drm_helper_probe_detect() == connected check to fix nv_backlight
no longer getting registered because of this.
Fixes: 4a16dd9d18a0 ("drm/nouveau/kms: switch to drm fbdev helpers")
Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/nouveau/-/issues/202
Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2181941
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230326205433.36485-1-hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
index 40409a29f5b69..91b5ecc575380 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
#include <linux/apple-gmux.h>
#include <linux/backlight.h>
#include <linux/idr.h>
+#include <drm/drm_probe_helper.h>
#include "nouveau_drv.h"
#include "nouveau_reg.h"
@@ -299,8 +300,12 @@ nv50_backlight_init(struct nouveau_backlight *bl,
struct nouveau_drm *drm = nouveau_drm(nv_encoder->base.base.dev);
struct nvif_object *device = &drm->client.device.object;
+ /*
+ * Note when this runs the connectors have not been probed yet,
+ * so nv_conn->base.status is not set yet.
+ */
if (!nvif_rd32(device, NV50_PDISP_SOR_PWM_CTL(ffs(nv_encoder->dcb->or) - 1)) ||
- nv_conn->base.status != connector_status_connected)
+ drm_helper_probe_detect(&nv_conn->base, NULL, false) != connector_status_connected)
return -ENODEV;
if (nv_conn->type == DCB_CONNECTOR_eDP) {
