Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] drm/panel: Use backlight helper

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Fri Jun 24 2022 - 15:40:52 EST


On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 07:23:13PM +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> backlight_properties.fb_blank is deprecated. The states it represents
> are handled by other properties; but instead of accessing those
> properties directly, drivers should use the helpers provided by
> backlight.h.
>
> Instead of retrieving the backlight brightness in struct
> backlight_properties manually, and then checking whether the backlight
> should be on at all, use backlight_get_brightness() which does all
> this and insulates this from future changes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks, applied to drm-misc (drm-misc-next)

Sam