Re: Status of led-backlight driver

From: Daniel Thompson
Date: Mon Sep 09 2019 - 09:04:07 EST


On Mon, Sep 09, 2019 at 01:46:39PM +0200, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> On 09/09/2019 13:14, Daniel Thompson wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 07, 2019 at 12:07:27PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I don't see the LED-backlight driver in -next. Could it be pushed? It
> > > is one of last pieces to get working backlight on Motorola Droid 4...
> > Sorry, I dropped the ball on this and was therefore rather late
> > reviewing this patchset.
> >
> > Assuming I have read the code correctly I think there are some
> > problems with the max_brightness handling in the backlight code.
>
> Can you comment this? I'll be happy to fix the problem.

I did that before replying to the nudges. See:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-leds/20190909095304.67ehnpg6gckwpno4@xxxxxxxxx/


> Reading the v4 again, I noticed that that I still had not removed the
> brightness scaling. Is that the problem ?

Yes (plus a couple of nits).


Daniel.