Re: LED backlight on Droid 4 and others

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Wed Feb 19 2020 - 11:19:40 EST


* Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx> [200219 07:47]:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2020, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > > > > > It would be good to get LED backlight to work in clean way for 5.6
> > > > > > > > kernel.
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > > > [If you have an idea what else is needed, it would be welcome; it
> > > > > > > > works for me in development tree but not in tree I'd like to
> > > > > > > > upstream.]
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Lee, would you be willing to take "backlight: add led-backlight
> > > > > > > > driver"? Would it help if I got "leds: Add managed API to get a LED
> > > > > > > > from a device driver" and "leds: Add of_led_get() and led_put()" into
> > > > > > > > for_next tree of the LED subsystem?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It looks like you have an open question from Tony on v10.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Is that patch orthogonal, or are there depend{ants,encies}?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Uhh looks like we messed up a bit with integration. Now droid4
> > > > > > LCD backlight can no longer be enabled at all manually in v5.6-rc1
> > > > > > without the "add led-backlight driver" patch.. Should we just
> > > > > > merge it to fix it rather than start scrambling with other
> > > > > > temporary hacks?
> > > > >
> > > > > We should just merge the "add led-backlight driver". Everything should
> > > > > be ready for it. I'm sorry if I broke something working, I was not
> > > > > aware it worked at all.
> > > > >
> > > > > Unfortunately, this is backlight code, not LED, so I can't just merge it.
> > > >
> > > > Please go ahead. Apply my Acked-by and merge away ASAP.
> > > >
> > > > Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > OK best to merge the driver via the LED tree:
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Is the patch below the one both of you are talking about?
> >
> > Hmm. I should s/default-brightness-level/default-brightness/
> > below.
> >
> > Lee, I can of course take it (thanks), but won't Kconfig/Makefile
> > pieces cause rejects? It might be still better if you took it. I can
> > hand-edit it and submit it in form for easy application... tommorow.
>
> My suggestion would be to send it to Linus ASAP.
>
> Ideally it would get into the -rcs, as it 'fixes' things.

I agree. Pavel, the version of the patch you posted is all space
trashed. Can you please post again so I can verify the related dts
changes against it?

Regards,

Tony