Re: [PATCH v6] backlight: led-backlight: add devlink to supplier LEDs

[Daniel Thompson]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2025 at 12:41:30PM +0000, Sverdlin, Alexander wrote:
> Hi Lee, Daniel, Jingoo,
>
> On Mon, 2025-05-19 at 22:19 +0200, Luca Ceresoli wrote:
> > led-backlight is a consumer of one or multiple LED class devices, but
> > devlink is currently unable to create correct supplier-producer links when
> > the supplier is a class device. It creates instead a link where the
> > supplier is the parent of the expected device.
> > <snip>
> > Fixes: ae232e45acf9 ("backlight: add led-backlight driver")
> > Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca.ceresoli@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Herve Codina <herve.codina@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I've noticed that the patch in archived in the patchwork [1] but I wasn't
> able to find it in any branch of the backlight tree [2].
>
> Could it be that the patch somehow slipped through?
> It does solve a real-world crash, could you please consider to apply it?

Sorry folks. I overlooked this in my backlog and never posted the R-b
(which helps Lee figure out what to hoover up).

Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@xxxxxxxxxx>


Daniel.