Re: [PATCH] backlight: remove obsolete comment for ->state

[Lee Jones]

> Jani spotted this when reviewing my earlier patch to remove the driver
> internal usage of this field in
> 
> commit 3cf91adaa594e8933af1727942ac560e5c7bc70e
> Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Apr 25 19:42:52 2018 +0200
> 
>     backlight: Nuke BL_CORE_DRIVER1

FYI, sending patches like this is not a good idea.

I'll clean it up for you this time, but in future please send patches
properly and place any additional comments you may have below the
'---' line.

> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  include/linux/backlight.h | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
> index 7fbf0539e14a..0b5897446dca 100644
> --- a/include/linux/backlight.h
> +++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
> @@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ struct backlight_properties {
>  	/* Backlight type */
>  	enum backlight_type type;
>  	/* Flags used to signal drivers of state changes */
> -	/* Upper 4 bits are reserved for driver internal use */
>  	unsigned int state;
>  
>  #define BL_CORE_SUSPENDED	(1 << 0)	/* backlight is suspended */

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