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

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Thu Jun 27 2019 - 11:49:27 EST


On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:24:53AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2019, Daniel Thompson wrote:
>
> > 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>
>
> Does this depend on patch 2, or is it orthogonal?

IIRC it depends on patch 2 (since that't what introduces props.scale ).


Daniel.

>
> > > ---
> > > 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,
> > >
> >
>
> --
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