Re: [PATCH 1/3] backlight: Provide two stage registration

[Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>]

On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 17:19 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> The backlight class currently allocates and registers a backlight device
> in a single function, making it impossible for certain backlight parameters
> to be set before the device becomes visible to userspace. This can cause
> problems if userspace wins the race and manages to read any of these values
> before they've been set, and also makes it harder to extend information
> that we may wish to provide to the rest of the kernel at registration time.
> 
> This patch breaks the register and unregister functions into two,
> separating allocation and registration. The old functions are left to ease
> transition.

I understand the problem but the second patch in this series bothers me
- an additional 300 lines of error handling in each driver.

Could we not pass an optional pointer to a properties structure to
create the backlight with instead or find a better way to solve this?

Cheers,

Richard

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Richard Purdie
Intel Open Source Technology Centre