This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/radeon: move bl encoder assignment into bl init to the 4.1-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-radeon-move-bl-encoder-assignment-into-bl-init.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4cee6a9057d5e13911f0cb6e143d11dc1a3245dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:26:32 -0400 Subject: drm/radeon: move bl encoder assignment into bl init MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> commit 4cee6a9057d5e13911f0cb6e143d11dc1a3245dd upstream. So that the bl encoder will be null if the GPU does not control the backlight. Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c | 1 + drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_encoders.c | 1 - drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_legacy_encoders.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c @@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ void radeon_atom_backlight_init(struct r backlight_update_status(bd); DRM_INFO("radeon atom DIG backlight initialized\n"); + rdev->mode_info.bl_encoder = radeon_encoder; return; --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_encoders.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_encoders.c @@ -194,7 +194,6 @@ static void radeon_encoder_add_backlight radeon_atom_backlight_init(radeon_encoder, connector); else radeon_legacy_backlight_init(radeon_encoder, connector); - rdev->mode_info.bl_encoder = radeon_encoder; } } --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_legacy_encoders.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_legacy_encoders.c @@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ void radeon_legacy_backlight_init(struct backlight_update_status(bd); DRM_INFO("radeon legacy LVDS backlight initialized\n"); + rdev->mode_info.bl_encoder = radeon_encoder; return; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.deucher@xxxxxxx are queue-4.1/drm-radeon-move-bl-encoder-assignment-into-bl-init.patch queue-4.1/drm-radeon-fix-dpms-when-driver-backlight-control-is-disabled.patch queue-4.1/drm-radeon-don-t-try-to-recreate-sysfs-entries-on-resume.patch queue-4.1/drm-radeon-dpm-don-t-add-pwm-attributes-if-dpm-is-disabled.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html