This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
backlight: gpio_backlight: Drop output GPIO direction check for initial power state
to the 6.5-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:
backlight-gpio_backlight-drop-output-gpio-direction-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 95a91229fcff934c0bd3b32ee005b0115ec7741d
Author: Ying Liu <victor.liu@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jul 21 09:29:03 2023 +0000
backlight: gpio_backlight: Drop output GPIO direction check for initial power state
[ Upstream commit fe1328b5b2a087221e31da77e617f4c2b70f3b7f ]
So, let's drop output GPIO direction check and only check GPIO value to set
the initial power state.
Fixes: 706dc68102bc ("backlight: gpio: Explicitly set the direction of the GPIO")
Signed-off-by: Liu Ying <victor.liu@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230721093342.1532531-1-victor.liu@xxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c
index 5c5c99f7979e3..30ec5b6845335 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c
@@ -87,8 +87,7 @@ static int gpio_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
/* Not booted with device tree or no phandle link to the node */
bl->props.power = def_value ? FB_BLANK_UNBLANK
: FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN;
- else if (gpiod_get_direction(gbl->gpiod) == 0 &&
- gpiod_get_value_cansleep(gbl->gpiod) == 0)
+ else if (gpiod_get_value_cansleep(gbl->gpiod) == 0)
bl->props.power = FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN;
else
bl->props.power = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK;
