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2024-07-04backlight: Add BACKLIGHT_POWER_ constants for power statesThomas Zimmermann1-3/+4
Duplicate FB_BLANK_ constants as BACKLIGHT_POWER__ constants in the backlight header file. Allows backlight drivers to avoid including the fbdev header file and removes a compile-time dependency between the two subsystems. The new BACKLIGHT_POWER_ constants have the same values as their FB_BLANK_ counterparts. Hence UAPI and internal semantics do not change. The backlight drivers can be converted one by one. Each instance of FB_BLANK_UNBLANK becomes BACKLIGHT_POWER_ON, each of FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN becomes BACKLIGHT_POWER_OFF, and FB_BLANK_NORMAL becomes BACKLIGHT_POWER_REDUCED. Backlight code or drivers do not use FB_BLANK_VSYNC_SUSPEND and FB_BLANK_HSYNC_SUSPEND, so no new constants for these are being added. The semantics of FB_BLANK_NORMAL appear inconsistent. In fbdev, NORMAL means display off with sync enabled. In backlight code, this translates to turn the backlight off, but some drivers interpret it as backlight on. So we keep the current code as is, but mark BACKLIGHT_POWER_REDUCED as deprecated. Drivers should be fixed and the constant removed. This affects ams369fg06 and a few DRM panel drivers. v2: - rename BL_CORE_ power constants to BACKLIGHT_POWER_ (Sam) - fix documentation Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <[email protected]>
2020-10-30docs: ABI: stable: make files ReST compatibleMauro Carvalho Chehab1-0/+1
Several entries at the stable ABI files won't parse if we pass them directly to the ReST output. Adjust them, in order to allow adding their contents as-is at the stable ABI book. Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/467a0dfbcdf00db710a629d3fe4a2563750339d8.1604042072.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
2011-03-22backlight: add backlight typeMatthew Garrett1-0/+20
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]>
2009-08-28video/backlight: document sysfs interfaceCorentin Chary1-0/+36
Date and KernelVersion may be wrong because the backlight interface was introduced before git initial import. Cc:Richard Purdie <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <[email protected]>