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From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
To: DRI Development <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>,
Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>,
Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>,
Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>,
Meghana Madhyastha <meghana.madhyastha@gmail.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/6] backlight: Nuke unused backlight.props.state states
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 19:42:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180425174253.4616-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> (raw)
The backlight power state handling is supremely confusing. We have:
- props.power, using FB_BLANK_* defines
- props.fb_blank, using the same, but deprecated int favour of
props.state
- props.state, using the BL_CORE_* defines
- and finally a bunch of backlight drivers treat brightness == 0 as
off. But of course not all of them.
This is way too much confusion to fix in a simple patch, but at least
prevent more hilarity from spreading by removing the unused BL_CORE_*
defines. I have no idea why exactly anyone would need that.
Wrt the ideal state, we really just want a boolean state. The 4 power
saving states that the fbdev subsystem uses are overkill in todays hw
(this was only relevant for VGA and similar analog circuits like
TV-out), the new drm atomic modeset api simplified even the uapi to a
simple bool. And there was never a valid technical reason to have the
intermediate fbdev power states for backlights (those really only can
be either off or on).
Cleanup motivated by Meghana's questions about all this.
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>
Cc: Meghana Madhyastha <meghana.madhyastha@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
---
include/linux/backlight.h | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
index 2baab6f3861d..1db67662bfcb 100644
--- a/include/linux/backlight.h
+++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
@@ -84,9 +84,6 @@ struct backlight_properties {
#define BL_CORE_SUSPENDED (1 << 0) /* backlight is suspended */
#define BL_CORE_FBBLANK (1 << 1) /* backlight is under an fb blank event */
-#define BL_CORE_DRIVER4 (1 << 28) /* reserved for driver specific use */
-#define BL_CORE_DRIVER3 (1 << 29) /* reserved for driver specific use */
-#define BL_CORE_DRIVER2 (1 << 30) /* reserved for driver specific use */
#define BL_CORE_DRIVER1 (1 << 31) /* reserved for driver specific use */
};
--
2.17.0
next reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 17:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-25 17:42 Daniel Vetter [this message]
2018-04-25 17:42 ` [PATCH 2/6] backlight/generic-bl: remove DRIVER1 state Daniel Vetter
2018-04-30 10:21 ` Jani Nikula
2018-04-25 17:42 ` [PATCH 3/6] backlight/pandora: Stop using BL_CORE_DRIVER1 Daniel Vetter
2018-04-30 10:22 ` Jani Nikula
2018-04-25 17:42 ` [PATCH 4/6] staging/fbtft: " Daniel Vetter
2018-04-30 9:54 ` Lee Jones
2018-04-30 10:59 ` Greg KH
2018-04-30 10:22 ` Jani Nikula
2018-04-25 17:42 ` [PATCH 5/6] backlight: Also nuke BL_CORE_DRIVER1 Daniel Vetter
2018-04-30 10:24 ` Jani Nikula
2018-04-30 12:14 ` Lee Jones
2018-04-25 17:42 ` [PATCH 6/6] MAINTAINERS: add dri-devel for backlight subsystem patches Daniel Vetter
2018-04-25 19:43 ` Jingoo Han
2018-04-25 19:42 ` [PATCH 1/6] backlight: Nuke unused backlight.props.state states Jingoo Han
2018-04-30 10:21 ` Jani Nikula
2018-04-30 12:27 ` Lee Jones
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-01-17 14:01 Daniel Vetter
2018-01-17 14:56 ` Daniel Thompson
2018-01-18 8:32 ` Lee Jones
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