On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:39:16AM +0000, Meghana Madhyastha wrote:
> Add helper functions backlight_enable and backlight_disable to
> enable/disable a backlight device. These helper functions can
> then be used by different drm and tinydrm drivers to avoid
> repetition of code and also to enforce a uniform and consistent
> way to enable/disable a backlight device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Meghana Madhyastha <meghana.madhyas...@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thomp...@linaro.org>
BTW Lee J. looks PRs and merges for the backlight tree, I'll leave it
to Lee and whoevers-DRM-tree-this-would-naturally-land-in to decide the
merge path.
Daniel.
> ---
> changes in v17:
> -set fb_blank along with clearing the BL_CORE_FBBLANK bit
>
> include/linux/backlight.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
> index af7003548..ace825e2c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/backlight.h
> +++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
> @@ -130,6 +130,38 @@ static inline int backlight_update_status(struct
> backlight_device *bd)
> return ret;
> }
>
> +/**
> + * backlight_enable - Enable backlight
> + * @bd: the backlight device to enable
> + */
> +static inline int backlight_enable(struct backlight_device *bd)
> +{
> + if (!bd)
> + return 0;
> +
> + bd->props.power = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK;
> + bd->props.fb_blank = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK;
> + bd->props.state &= ~BL_CORE_FBBLANK;
> +
> + return backlight_update_status(bd);
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * backlight_disable - Disable backlight
> + * @bd: the backlight device to disable
> + */
> +static inline int backlight_disable(struct backlight_device *bd)
> +{
> + if (!bd)
> + return 0;
> +
> + bd->props.power = FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN;
> + bd->props.fb_blank = FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN;
> + bd->props.state |= BL_CORE_FBBLANK;
> +
> + return backlight_update_status(bd);
> +}
> +
> extern struct backlight_device *backlight_device_register(const char *name,
> struct device *dev, void *devdata, const struct backlight_ops *ops,
> const struct backlight_properties *props);
> --
> 2.11.0
>
