From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de (metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de [185.203.201.7]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C94114A93 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 2024 06:49:14 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.203.201.7 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1710312556; cv=none; b=gQMpGrgb7pkOAHMsKci0vFrjufTtBWTG4kEZn1+QDmurwmW/PC7Q6McWbte1uWigaOpSacRQ66C8m+/kE6Jnf0F6RF0Nd6Bv1/n3dxv8ZAxv3kKzTO3w1MXgTJr7RCUXGQdrt9bFmaXv/VmllQ1VcBeZwm+z0wEJZ88Zi/dnhqA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1710312556; c=relaxed/simple; bh=YmGhpF67UQkXDrjW1tdhJtif7Mb5bOO6MU/H0fI9Ehw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=M4iI07LZEHjGx8jtJSXHEqvIBFM3rEfRVNbKeyro+TSw+VlZ9sicZ5LLdcQ6wPdcsV+5+NvYjLxuVlOzXxgAW8wDR5+tvRgudY+jgz0bjmDQWfa23Pd+T6c+3tyCAZfL/LQXY5IiU+37XXgaAYa4cjYXfPCB/+08Z7vMJtpAtgo= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=pengutronix.de; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pengutronix.de; arc=none smtp.client-ip=185.203.201.7 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=pengutronix.de Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=pengutronix.de Received: from drehscheibe.grey.stw.pengutronix.de ([2a0a:edc0:0:c01:1d::a2]) by metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1rkIQ5-0003qH-Ik; Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:48:57 +0100 Received: from [2a0a:edc0:0:900:1d::77] (helo=ptz.office.stw.pengutronix.de) by drehscheibe.grey.stw.pengutronix.de with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.94.2) (envelope-from ) id 1rkIQ3-006404-W6; Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:48:56 +0100 Received: from ukl by ptz.office.stw.pengutronix.de with local (Exim 4.96) (envelope-from ) id 1rkIQ3-005E6s-2f; Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:48:55 +0100 Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 07:48:55 +0100 From: Uwe =?utf-8?Q?Kleine-K=C3=B6nig?= To: Thomas Zimmermann Cc: lee@kernel.org, andy@kernel.org, daniel.thompson@linaro.org, jingoohan1@gmail.com, deller@gmx.de, robin@protonic.nl, javierm@redhat.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/10] backlight: Replace struct fb_info in interfaces Message-ID: References: <20240305162425.23845-1-tzimmermann@suse.de> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="fazplp4fyrovvxv2" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240305162425.23845-1-tzimmermann@suse.de> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a0a:edc0:0:c01:1d::a2 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ukl@pengutronix.de X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on metis.whiteo.stw.pengutronix.de); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-PTX-Original-Recipient: linux-pwm@vger.kernel.org --fazplp4fyrovvxv2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Thomas, On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 05:22:33PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > Backlight drivers implement struct backlight_ops.check_fb, which > uses struct fb_info in its interface. Replace the callback with one > that does not use fb_info. >=20 > In DRM, we have several drivers that implement backlight support. By > including these drivers depend on . > At the same time, fbdev is deprecated for new drivers and likely to > be replaced on many systems. >=20 > This patchset is part of a larger effort to implement the backlight > code without depending on fbdev. >=20 > Patch 1 makes the backlight core match backlight and framebuffer > devices via struct fb_info.bl_dev. Patches 2 to 9 then go through > drivers and remove unnecessary implementations of check_fb. Finally, > patch 10 replaces the check_fb hook with controls_device, which > uses the framebuffer's Linux device instead of the framebuffer. I assume the merge plan for this series is via drm-misc in one go? Best regards Uwe --=20 Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | https://www.pengutronix.de/ | --fazplp4fyrovvxv2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAABCgAdFiEEP4GsaTp6HlmJrf7Tj4D7WH0S/k4FAmXxTFYACgkQj4D7WH0S /k4WCgf+N9+ghi7jxWwK3i7nnF9402Id/hmnbKSiQ/2mzmtMu7hWnXpywzKwVGNy JuwbngFjANW8HquzInPZ0cOClpGx2dm5i2YsAqyDnOZO2Jg3zT1VOVZkd+/YzOI4 FWBxp3T0ZUTmE1Fh0ohTEL+lL49F7nJXmeZNUMqWec4BwT09Eu71ZRseDMjL4Ar3 bO9k6WkqF7/v+sWljRUWjvcAvRC/El4JMjyLTb9xS/UarDtjSbxePHZB6d9lf6St Dm0sgkqb/+jaZhY5kM1d0HJaEE1Wdef63pW2tDIunfj5L5PBveSw8xHMiipSCd4e 9krdHDOzOyL/lPFi7CSq7i85LSyypg== =uhXV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fazplp4fyrovvxv2--