[PATCH v10 11/15] drm/gud: add connector luminance support

From: Mario Limonciello (AMD)

Date: Mon Nov 02 2026 - 12:56:34 EST


From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>

Expose GUD display brightness through the connector LUMINANCE property
when DRM_LUMINANCE is enabled. Keep brightness state in the connector and
retain the asynchronous USB update path.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/gud/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/Kconfig b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/Kconfig
index b4d2136942f0e..6c250d3d5e203 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/Kconfig
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ config DRM_GUD
select DRM_CLIENT_SELECTION
select DRM_KMS_HELPER
select DRM_GEM_SHMEM_HELPER
- select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE
+ select BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE if !DRM_LUMINANCE
help
This is a DRM display driver for GUD USB Displays or display
adapters.
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c
index 8141c3a1e30ad..bd7688676e9e1 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/gud/gud_connector.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h>
#include <drm/drm_print.h>
#include <drm/drm_probe_helper.h>
+
#include <drm/gud.h>

#include "gud_internal.h"
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ struct gud_connector {
struct drm_encoder encoder;
struct backlight_device *backlight;
struct work_struct backlight_work;
+ unsigned int brightness;

/* Supported properties */
u16 *properties;
@@ -84,7 +86,7 @@ static void gud_connector_backlight_update_status_work(struct work_struct *work)
}

/* Reuse tv.brightness to avoid having to subclass */
- connector_state->tv.brightness = gconn->backlight->props.brightness;
+ connector_state->tv.brightness = READ_ONCE(gconn->brightness);

ret = drm_atomic_commit(state);
out:
@@ -110,6 +112,8 @@ static int gud_connector_backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device *bd)
struct drm_connector *connector = bl_get_data(bd);
struct gud_connector *gconn = to_gud_connector(connector);

+ WRITE_ONCE(gconn->brightness, bd->props.brightness);
+
/* The USB timeout is 5 seconds so use system_long_wq for worst case scenario */
queue_work(system_long_wq, &gconn->backlight_work);

@@ -132,6 +136,19 @@ static int gud_connector_backlight_register(struct gud_connector *gconn)
.brightness = gconn->initial_brightness,
};

+ gconn->brightness = props.brightness;
+
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DRM_LUMINANCE)) {
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = drm_connector_attach_luminance_property(connector, 0, props.max_brightness,
+ props.brightness);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ return 0;
+ }
+
name = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "card%d-%s-backlight",
connector->dev->primary->index, connector->name);
if (!name)
@@ -314,12 +331,37 @@ static int gud_connector_atomic_check(struct drm_connector *connector,
return 0;
}

+static void gud_connector_set_luminance(const struct drm_connector_state *conn_state);
+static void gud_connector_disable_luminance(const struct drm_connector_state *conn_state);
+
static const struct drm_connector_helper_funcs gud_connector_helper_funcs = {
.detect_ctx = gud_connector_detect,
.get_modes = gud_connector_get_modes,
.atomic_check = gud_connector_atomic_check,
+ .set_luminance = gud_connector_set_luminance,
+ .disable_luminance = gud_connector_disable_luminance,
};

+static void gud_connector_set_luminance(const struct drm_connector_state *conn_state)
+{
+ struct drm_connector *connector = conn_state->connector;
+ struct gud_connector *gconn = to_gud_connector(connector);
+ unsigned int luminance = conn_state->luminance;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(gconn->brightness, luminance);
+
+ /* The workqueue will apply it to the hardware */
+ queue_work(system_long_wq, &gconn->backlight_work);
+}
+
+static void gud_connector_disable_luminance(const struct drm_connector_state *conn_state)
+{
+ struct gud_connector *gconn = to_gud_connector(conn_state->connector);
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(gconn->brightness, 0);
+ queue_work(system_long_wq, &gconn->backlight_work);
+}
+
static int gud_connector_late_register(struct drm_connector *connector)
{
struct gud_connector *gconn = to_gud_connector(connector);
@@ -334,7 +376,9 @@ static void gud_connector_early_unregister(struct drm_connector *connector)
{
struct gud_connector *gconn = to_gud_connector(connector);

- backlight_device_unregister(gconn->backlight);
+ if (gconn->backlight)
+ backlight_device_unregister(gconn->backlight);
+
cancel_work_sync(&gconn->backlight_work);
}


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