Re: [PATCH v18 01/10] video: backlight: Add helpers to enable and disable backlight

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Tue Jan 23 2018 - 05:00:40 EST


On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 02:49:28PM +0000, Meghana Madhyastha wrote:
> Add helper functions backlight_enable and backlight_disable to
> enable/disable a backlight device. These helper functions can
> then be used by different drm and tinydrm drivers to avoid
> repetition of code and also to enforce a uniform and consistent
> way to enable/disable a backlight device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Meghana Madhyastha <meghana.madhyastha@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Sean Paul<seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Just in case there's another spin... the additional tags are normally
presented above the --- (otherwise they are unlikely to be copied into
the git history when they are applied).


Daniel.


>
> include/linux/backlight.h | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
> index af7003548..ace825e2c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/backlight.h
> +++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
> @@ -130,6 +130,38 @@ static inline int backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device *bd)
> return ret;
> }
>
> +/**
> + * backlight_enable - Enable backlight
> + * @bd: the backlight device to enable
> + */
> +static inline int backlight_enable(struct backlight_device *bd)
> +{
> + if (!bd)
> + return 0;
> +
> + bd->props.power = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK;
> + bd->props.fb_blank = FB_BLANK_UNBLANK;
> + bd->props.state &= ~BL_CORE_FBBLANK;
> +
> + return backlight_update_status(bd);
> +}
> +
> +/**
> + * backlight_disable - Disable backlight
> + * @bd: the backlight device to disable
> + */
> +static inline int backlight_disable(struct backlight_device *bd)
> +{
> + if (!bd)
> + return 0;
> +
> + bd->props.power = FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN;
> + bd->props.fb_blank = FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN;
> + bd->props.state |= BL_CORE_FBBLANK;
> +
> + return backlight_update_status(bd);
> +}
> +
> extern struct backlight_device *backlight_device_register(const char *name,
> struct device *dev, void *devdata, const struct backlight_ops *ops,
> const struct backlight_properties *props);
> --
> 2.11.0
>