From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>,
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>,
Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com>,
Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>,
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/drm_panel: fix export of drm_panel_of_backlight, try #3
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2020 21:17:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1TmfqXA3gK0YwbPBSeydEs=b8Tae=JWvju4OZaSMUscA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200108164618.GA28588@ravnborg.org>
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 5:46 PM Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Arnd.
>
> > > > All of this is just another hack until the backlight config usage is
> > > > fixed for good. Do we really want to make this the example to copy paste
> > > > wherever we hit the issue next?
> > > >
> > > > I'm not naking, but I'm not acking either.
> > >
> > > I will try to take a look at your old BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE patch this
> > > weekend. I think we need that one fixed - and then we can have this mess
> > > with "drm_panel_of_backlight" fixed in the right way.
> >
> > I had also attempted to fix the larger mess around 'select' statements in DRM/FB
> > around BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE several times in the past, and even at
> > some point sent a patch that was acked but never merged and later broke because
> > of other changes.
>
> Any chance you have the patch around or can dig up a pointer?
> My google foo did not turn up anything.
I found it now:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170726135312.2214309-1-arnd@arndb.de/
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-08 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-07 20:32 [PATCH] drm/drm_panel: fix export of drm_panel_of_backlight, try #3 Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-08 9:55 ` Jani Nikula
2020-01-08 10:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2020-01-08 10:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-01-08 16:46 ` Sam Ravnborg
2020-01-08 20:17 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2020-01-12 20:22 ` Sam Ravnborg
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