On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 01:22:13PM +0100, Pascal Roeleven wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am working on adding an old A10 device to mainline and noticed an issue
> when testing on 5.5.8 vs master.
>
> Since 5.6-rc1, I can't control the brightness of my LCD backlight anymore.
> The backlight stays on full brightness instead. I am controlling the
> brightness value via sysfs for testing.
>
> I am not sure if this is a general pwm-sun4i issue or if it is related to
> the backlight. However I narrowed it down to one commit for pwm-sun4i:
>
> fa4d81784681a26bcf7d2a43c6ac5cf991ef28f5
>
> If I use pwm-sun4i.c from 5b090b430d750961305030232314b6acdb0102aa on
> master, the backlight works fine. Unfortunately, due to my lack of kernel
> experience, I can't see how the commit above broke it.
Hmm, I cannot see how fa4d81784681a26bcf7d2a43c6ac5cf991ef28f5 breaks
this. Looking at the output of
git show -b fa4d81784681a26bcf7d2a43c6ac5cf991ef28f5
(i.e. ignoring whitespace changes) I don't see how the behaviour you're
reporting can be explained.
Are you sure that fa4d81784681a26bcf7d2a43c6ac5cf991ef28f5 is the bad
commit?
Can you install a tool to inspect register values and check how the
affected registers change if you switch kernel versions and/or pwm
settings?
(e.g.
memtool md 0x1c20e00+0xc
)
Best regards
Uwe
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