This patch enhances dual-backlight handling by explicitly linking
primary and secondary backlight devices using new fields:

- `is_secondary`: Marks if a device is secondary in a pair
- `secondary`: Points to the associated secondary device (if any)
- `primary`: Points to the primary device (for secondary devices)

It also update `backlight_update_status()` to ensure that both primary
and secondary devices are updated together during brightness changes.
This provides a consistent update mechanism in dual-backlight case.

Suggested-by: Daniel Thompson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pengyu Luo <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c |  9 +++++-
 include/linux/backlight.h           | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c 
b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
index 991702f5d..2e7b179bc 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
@@ -388,7 +388,6 @@ struct backlight_device *backlight_device_register(const 
char *name,
                new_name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s-secondary", name);
                if (!new_name)
                        return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
-               put_device(&prev_bd->dev);
        }
 
        new_bd->dev.class = &backlight_class;
@@ -428,6 +427,14 @@ struct backlight_device *backlight_device_register(const 
char *name,
        list_add(&new_bd->entry, &backlight_dev_list);
        mutex_unlock(&backlight_dev_list_mutex);
 
+       /* set them until the secondary device is available */
+       if (prev_bd) {
+               prev_bd->secondary = new_bd;
+               new_bd->primary = prev_bd;
+               new_bd->is_secondary = true;
+               put_device(&prev_bd->dev);
+       }
+
        kfree(new_name);
 
        return new_bd;
diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
index 10e626db7..cde992e10 100644
--- a/include/linux/backlight.h
+++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
@@ -291,13 +291,42 @@ struct backlight_device {
         * @use_count: The number of unblanked displays.
         */
        int use_count;
+
+       /**
+        * @is_secondary: Indicates whether this backlight device is secondary.
+        */
+       bool is_secondary;
+
+       /**
+        * @secondary: Pointer to the secondary backlight device.
+        */
+       struct backlight_device *secondary;
+
+       /**
+        * @primary: Pointer to the primary backlight device.
+        *
+        * Non-NULL only for secondary devices.
+        */
+       struct backlight_device *primary;
 };
 
+static inline struct backlight_device *
+to_primary_backlight_device(struct backlight_device *bd)
+{
+       return bd->is_secondary ? bd->primary : bd;
+}
+
+static inline struct backlight_device *
+to_secondary_backlight_device(struct backlight_device *bd)
+{
+       return bd->is_secondary ? bd : bd->secondary;
+}
+
 /**
- * backlight_update_status - force an update of the backlight device status
+ * backlight_update_status_single - force an update of the backlight device 
status
  * @bd: the backlight device
  */
-static inline int backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device *bd)
+static inline int backlight_update_status_single(struct backlight_device *bd)
 {
        int ret = -ENOENT;
 
@@ -309,6 +338,23 @@ static inline int backlight_update_status(struct 
backlight_device *bd)
        return ret;
 }
 
+/**
+ * backlight_update_status - update primary and secondary backlight devices
+ * @bd: the backlight device
+ */
+static inline int backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device *bd)
+{
+       struct backlight_device *primary = to_primary_backlight_device(bd);
+       struct backlight_device *secondary = to_secondary_backlight_device(bd);
+       int ret;
+
+       ret = backlight_update_status_single(primary);
+       if (!secondary || ret)
+               return ret;
+
+       return backlight_update_status_single(secondary);
+}
+
 /**
  * backlight_enable - Enable backlight
  * @bd: the backlight device to enable
-- 
2.49.0

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