+Cc Hans who ins involved with the backlight subsystem
Hi Julius,
today I stumbled upon a mail from Hans [0], which explains that the
backlight subsystem is not actually a good fit (yet?) for external
displays.
It seems a new API is in the works that would better fit, but I'm not
sure about the
On 2023-08-20 11:41:18+0200, Julius Zint wrote:
> [..]
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig b/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
> index 51387b1ef012..b964a820956d 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig
> @@ -472,6 +472,14 @@ config
Hi,
this should probably also go to the maintainers of the "HID CORE LAYER"
for review:
HID CORE LAYER
M: Jiri Kosina
M: Benjamin Tissoires
L: linux-in...@vger.kernel.org
And maybe it would better fit to be in drivers/hid/ ?
(Something for the maintainers to figure out)
Some
Since commit ee6d3dd4ed48 ("driver core: make kobj_type constant.")
the driver core allows the usage of const struct kobj_type.
Take advantage of this to constify the structure definition to prevent
modification at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh
---
drivers/dma-buf/dma
Since commit ee6d3dd4ed48 ("driver core: make kobj_type constant.")
the driver core allows the usage of const struct kobj_type.
Take advantage of this to constify the structure definitions to prevent
modification at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh
---
drivers/gpu/drm/
Since commit ee6d3dd4ed48 ("driver core: make kobj_type constant.")
the driver core allows the usage of const struct kobj_type.
Take advantage of this to constify the structure definitions to prevent
modification at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh
---
drivers/gpu/drm/
Since commit ee6d3dd4ed48 ("driver core: make kobj_type constant.")
the driver core allows the usage of const struct kobj_type.
Take advantage of this to constify the structure definitions to prevent
modification at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh
---
drivers/gpu/d
Instead of relying on an accidental, transitive inclusion of linux/leds.h
use it directly.
Also drop the forware definition of struct led_classdev that is now
provided by linux/leds.h.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh
---
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_led.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion
On 2021-09-23T10:48+0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Sep 2021, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
>
> > backlight.h documents "struct backlight_ops->get_brightness()" to return
> > a negative errno on failure.
> > So far these errors have not been handled in the backl
On 2021-09-07T14:47+0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> backlight.h documents "struct backlight_ops->get_brightness()" to return
> a negative errno on failure.
> So far these errors have not been handled in the backlight core.
> This leads to negative values being exposed th
On 2021-09-07T14:10+0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 02:47:51PM +0200, Thomas Weißschuh wrote:
> > backlight.h documents "struct backlight_ops->get_brightness()" to return
> > a negative errno on failure.
> > So far these errors have not
.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh
---
v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210906215525.15418-1-li...@weissschuh.net/
v1 -> v2:
* use dev_err() instead of dev_warn() (Daniel Thompson)
* Finish logging format string with newline (Daniel Thompson)
* Log errno via dedicated error pointe
.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh
---
drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 22 +-
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
index 537fe1b376ad..d681962f8509 100644
--- a/drivers/vi
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