On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 10:57 AM Daniel Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 12:50:11PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> > > > > In all cases in which a struct acpi_driver is used for binding a driver > > to an ACPI device object, a corresponding platform device is created by > > the ACPI core and that device is regarded as a proper representation of > > underlying hardware. Accordingly, a struct platform_driver should be > > used by driver code to bind to that device. There are multiple reasons > > why drivers should not bind directly to ACPI device objects [1]. > > > > Overall, it is better to bind drivers to platform devices than to their > > ACPI companions, so convert the Apple Backlight ACPI driver to a > > platform one. > > > > While this is not expected to alter functionality, it changes sysfs > > layout and so it will be visible to user space. > > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ [1] > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]> > > Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <[email protected]>
Thanks! Unless anyone has any objections or concerns (in which case please let me know), I'm going to queue up this one for 7.1.
