Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] backlight: Expose brightness curve type through sysfs

[Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 12:00:03PM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> Backlight brightness curves can have different shapes. The two main
> types are linear and non-linear curves. The human eye doesn't
> perceive linearly increasing/decreasing brightness as linear (see
> also 88ba95bedb79 "backlight: pwm_bl: Compute brightness of LED
> linearly to human eye"), hence many backlights use non-linear (often
> logarithmic) brightness curves. The type of curve is currently opaque
> to userspace, so userspace often relies on more or less reliable
> heuristics (like the number of brightness levels) to decide whether
> to treat a backlight device as linear or non-linear.
> 
> Export the type of the brightness curve via a new sysfs attribute.
> 
> Matthias Kaehlcke (4):
>   MAINTAINERS: Add entry for stable backlight sysfs ABI documentation
>   backlight: Expose brightness curve type through sysfs
>   backlight: pwm_bl: Set scale type for CIE 1931 curves
>   backlight: pwm_bl: Set scale type for brightness curves specified in
>     the DT
> 
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-class-backlight         | 26 ++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |  2 ++
>  drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c           | 19 ++++++++++
>  drivers/video/backlight/pwm_bl.c              | 35 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/backlight.h                     |  8 +++++
>  5 files changed, 89 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-backlight

ping, any comments on v3?

Thanks

Matthias