Re: [PATCH 1/3] backlight: Provide two stage registration

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:18:42PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:

> Could we not pass an optional pointer to a properties structure to
> create the backlight with instead or find a better way to solve this?

That'd work, but it'd involve significant refactoring of all the 
drivers - we really need to be setting max_brightness before 
device_register() is called. I suspect it'd be an even larger delta 
against mainline.

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