Re: pwm_bl on i.MX6Q broken on 5.4-RC1+

[OndÅej Jirman]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 02:55:54PM -0500, Adam Ford wrote:
> I have an i.MX6Q with an LCD and PWM controlled backlight.  On 5.4-RC1
> through the current master (16 Oct 2019), the backlight does not come
> on by default.  I can get it come on by manually setting the
> brightness, but any video activity seems to blank the screen again
> until I change the brightness again.

You might want to check PWM driver that's used on your SoC. I had a similar
breakage on Allwinner SoCs, and it was caused by a broken get_state callback.
The problem was there for a long time and it was only exposed by the commit you
bisected to.

regards,
	o.

> I bisected the patch to 01ccf903edd6 ("pwm: Let pwm_get_state() return
> the last implemented state")
> 
> If I revert this patch on 5.4-rc3, the issue goes away.
> 
> I was hoping someone might have a suggestion on how to fix it to play
> nicely with the iMX6Q PWM or revert if no solution can be found.
> 
> thank you,
> 
> adam