Re: [PATCH 2/6] backlight/generic-bl: remove DRIVER1 state

[Daniel Thompson]

On 17/01/18 14:01, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Nothing in the entire tree ever sets this, which means this is dead
> code. Remove it.
>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>

Not sure whether to ack this one or not.

There is nothing wrong with the change but having taken a closer look 
the driver seems like it exists mostly to allow mach-XXX code to plug in 
function pointers and we don't do that sort of thing any more.

I think the entire driver is dead code!


Daniel.


> ---
>   drivers/video/backlight/generic_bl.c | 5 -----
>   1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/generic_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/generic_bl.c
> index 67dfb939a514..4dea91acea13 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/generic_bl.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/generic_bl.c
> @@ -21,9 +21,6 @@ static int genericbl_intensity;
>   static struct backlight_device *generic_backlight_device;
>   static struct generic_bl_info *bl_machinfo;
>   
> -/* Flag to signal when the battery is low */
> -#define GENERICBL_BATTLOW       BL_CORE_DRIVER1
> -
>   static int genericbl_send_intensity(struct backlight_device *bd)
>   {
>   	int intensity = bd->props.brightness;
> @@ -34,8 +31,6 @@ static int genericbl_send_intensity(struct backlight_device *bd)
>   		intensity = 0;
>   	if (bd->props.state & BL_CORE_SUSPENDED)
>   		intensity = 0;
> -	if (bd->props.state & GENERICBL_BATTLOW)
> -		intensity &= bl_machinfo->limit_mask;
>   
>   	bl_machinfo->set_bl_intensity(intensity);
>