backlight: add backlight type

There may be multiple ways of controlling the backlight on a given
machine.  Allow drivers to expose the type of interface they are
providing, making it possible for userspace to make appropriate policy
decisions.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Purdie <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]>
Cc: Zhang Rui <[email protected]>
Cc: Len Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
index 4a3d52e545e1..5ffc6dda4675 100644
--- a/include/linux/backlight.h
+++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ enum backlight_update_reason {
 	BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS,
 };
 
+enum backlight_type {
+	BACKLIGHT_RAW = 1,
+	BACKLIGHT_PLATFORM,
+	BACKLIGHT_FIRMWARE,
+	BACKLIGHT_TYPE_MAX,
+};
+
 struct backlight_device;
 struct fb_info;
 
@@ -62,6 +69,8 @@ struct backlight_properties {
 	/* FB Blanking active? (values as for power) */
 	/* Due to be removed, please use (state & BL_CORE_FBBLANK) */
 	int fb_blank;
+	/* Backlight type */
+	enum backlight_type type;
 	/* Flags used to signal drivers of state changes */
 	/* Upper 4 bits are reserved for driver internal use */
 	unsigned int state;