Re: [PATCH 3/4] backlight: pwm_bl: Set scale type for CIE 1931 curves

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Fri Jun 21 2019 - 08:56:06 EST


On 13/06/2019 20:43, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
For backlight curves calculated with the CIE 1931 algorithm set
the brightness scale type property accordingly. This makes the
scale type available to userspace via the 'scale' sysfs attribute.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I'd like to keep discussion on patch 2 open a bit longer (it's not part of the thread below patch 2 but Pavel had concerns about the sysfs interface) so this ack won't really push things forward but FWIW:

Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>


---
drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
index fb45f866b923..f067fe7aa35d 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c
@@ -553,6 +553,8 @@ static int pwm_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
goto err_alloc;
}
+ memset(&props, 0, sizeof(struct backlight_properties));
+
if (data->levels) {
/*
* For the DT case, only when brightness levels is defined
@@ -591,6 +593,8 @@ static int pwm_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
pb->levels = data->levels;
}
+
+ props.scale = BACKLIGHT_SCALE_CIE1931;
} else {
/*
* That only happens for the non-DT case, where platform data
@@ -601,7 +605,6 @@ static int pwm_backlight_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
pb->lth_brightness = data->lth_brightness * (state.period / pb->scale);
- memset(&props, 0, sizeof(struct backlight_properties));
props.type = BACKLIGHT_RAW;
props.max_brightness = data->max_brightness;
bl = backlight_device_register(dev_name(&pdev->dev), &pdev->dev, pb,