On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 09:46:00PM +0200, Konrad Dybcio wrote:
> This chip supports controlling the backlight via DCS commands, on at
> least some panels. Add support for doing so.
>
> Note this may only concern the NT36523*W* variant. Nobody knows, really,
> there's no docs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dyb...@linaro.org>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-novatek-nt36523.c | 67
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-novatek-nt36523.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-novatek-nt36523.c
> index d30dbbfb67b1..3c81ec014eef 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-novatek-nt36523.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-novatek-nt36523.c
> @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
> * Copyright (c) 2022, 2023 Jianhua Lu <lujianhua...@gmail.com>
> */
>
> +
[..]
> +static struct backlight_device *nt36523_create_backlight(struct
> mipi_dsi_device *dsi)
> +{
> + struct device *dev = &dsi->dev;
> + const struct backlight_properties props = {
> + .type = BACKLIGHT_RAW,
> + .brightness = 512,
> + .max_brightness = 4095,
Please set the missing scale property of backlight. Daniel said: "Unknown is
never correct for
new drivers."
See https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/y6siwovfx%2foln...@aspen.lan/
Otherwise,
Reviewed-by: Jianhua Lu <lujianhua...@gmail.com>
> + };
> +
> + return devm_backlight_device_register(dev, dev_name(dev), dev, dsi,
> + &nt36523_bl_ops, &props);
> +}
> +
> static int nt36523_probe(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)
> {
> struct device *dev = &dsi->dev;
> @@ -730,9 +784,16 @@ static int nt36523_probe(struct mipi_dsi_device *dsi)
> mipi_dsi_set_drvdata(dsi, pinfo);
> drm_panel_init(&pinfo->panel, dev, &nt36523_panel_funcs,
> DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_DSI);
>
> - ret = drm_panel_of_backlight(&pinfo->panel);
> - if (ret)
> - return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to get backlight\n");
> + if (pinfo->desc->has_dcs_backlight) {
> + pinfo->panel.backlight = nt36523_create_backlight(dsi);
> + if (IS_ERR(pinfo->panel.backlight))
> + return dev_err_probe(dev,
> PTR_ERR(pinfo->panel.backlight),
> + "Failed to create backlight\n");
> + } else {
> + ret = drm_panel_of_backlight(&pinfo->panel);
> + if (ret)
> + return dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "Failed to get
> backlight\n");
> + }
>
> drm_panel_add(&pinfo->panel);
>
>
> --
> 2.40.0
>
