Re: [PATCH] backlight: do not power off backlight when unregistering

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Mon, 06 Nov 2006, Richard Purdie wrote:
> that other devices would have a similar set of constraints (all the
> existing users at the time did). On such hardware, deinitialising
> anything you initialised is the norm and makes sense but the PC/ACPI
> world is different.

Yes, and we don't *init* the hardware with the backlight class either in
ACPI drivers...  AFAIK, anyway.

> Setting backlightdevice->props->update_status = NULL before
> unregistering is a horrible idea and I don't want to see hacks like that
> so yes, lets move it back into the drivers. 

Sure thing.  I am not at all interested into having such a horrible hack in
my local version of ibm-acpi for a second longer than strictly needed, so I
will help if I am able to.

> > Since the commit that introduced this behaviour (commit
> > 6ca017658b1f902c9bba2cc1017e301581f7728d) apparently did so because the
> > corgi_bl.c driver powered off the backlight, the attached patch also makes
> > sure that the corgi_bl.c driver will not have its behaviour changed.
> 
> Those commits were designed to standardise several behaviours amongst
> several drivers and this specific case was added to the core rather than
> coding it in each of several drivers. We therefore really need to update
> those other drivers too (locomo at the very least).

Do you have a list of them?  I can try to produce (untested) patches for
the ones in-tree, if you want me to.

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