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From: jg1.han@samsung.com (Jingoo Han)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCHv4] video: backlight: gpio-backlight: Add DT support.
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 09:20:08 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <004101ced8f3$9e4e7ec0$daeb7c40$%han@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131101095754.GJ27864@ulmo.nvidia.com>

On Friday, November 01, 2013 6:58 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 08:44:48AM +0900, Jingoo Han wrote:
>> On Friday, October 25, 2013 10:58 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>> On Thursday 24 October 2013 13:05:25 Thierry Reding wrote:

[....]

>>>> Or is there still a reason to have more than a single bit for backlight
>>>> state? I don't know any hardware that actually makes a difference
>>>> between FB_BLANK_NORMAL, FB_BLANK_VSYNC_SUSPEND, FB_BLANK_HSYNC_SUSPEND
>>>> or FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN.
>>
>> On Exynos side, I have never seen that FB_BLANK_VSYNC_SUSPEND,
>> FB_BLANK_HSYNC_SUSPEND are used for controlling display panels or
>> Display controllers.
>>
>> However, I heard that FB_BLANK_VSYNC_SUSPEND, FB_BLANK_HSYNC_SUSPEND are
>> used for some monitors.
> 
> I think that those may make sense in the context of fbdev, and looking
> at some fbdev drivers seems to substantiate that.
> 
> However, I don't think backlights have any such capability. I mean they
> are either on or off, right? There's no such thing as partially off, or
> partially on. How would a backlight behave differently if the panel was
> in HSYNC suspend mode or VSYNC suspend mode?

Hi Thierry Reding.

I agree with you.
In the case of backlight, there is no need that a backlight behaves
differently in HSYNC suspend mode or VSYNC suspend mode.

Best regards,
Jingoo Han

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-04  0:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-18 15:04 [PATCH 01/11] of: add vendor prefix for Eukréa Electromatique Denis Carikli
2013-10-18 15:04 ` [PATCH 02/11] video: imxfb: Introduce regulator support Denis Carikli
2013-10-19 10:45   ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-10-21  9:13     ` [PATCHv4] video: backlight: gpio-backlight: Add DT support Denis Carikli
2013-10-21 22:48       ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-10-22  5:11         ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-10-22  4:58       ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-10-22  7:23         ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-22 15:34           ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-10-22 20:01             ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 13:42               ` Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
2013-10-23 16:49                 ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-23 20:08                   ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 16:51               ` Stephen Warren
2013-10-23 20:20                 ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-23 22:38                   ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-10-24 11:05                     ` Thierry Reding
2013-10-25 13:57                       ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-10-31 23:44                         ` Jingoo Han
2013-11-01  9:57                           ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-04  0:20                             ` Jingoo Han [this message]
2013-10-31 23:37               ` Jingoo Han
2013-11-01 10:13                 ` Thierry Reding
2013-11-06  0:08                   ` Laurent Pinchart
2013-10-25 20:10       ` Grant Likely

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