PXA PWM possible regression after 3.5: backlight remains off after resume

[thierry.reding@avionic-design.de (Thierry Reding)]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 04:20:24PM +0100, Paul Parsons wrote:
> There is a possible PXA PWM regression between 3.5 and 3.6-rc6: if I
> suspend and then resume an iPAQ hx4700, the backlight remains off.
> 
> In 3.5 the backlight would turn on after the resume.
> 
> I presumed this is a PWM issue because the PXA PWM driver was reworked
> and moved trees between 3.5 and 3.6-rc6. And there was mention of
> broken PWM drivers about a month ago, for example:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-August/115717.html
> 
> Does my backlight breakage sound familiar to anybody? Is there
> anything obvious I can try before debugging it further?

Looking at the code from before the move to the PWM subsystem I have a
hard time understanding how this could have worked for supend/resume in
the first place. The driver has never supported the supend and resume
callbacks. Maybe it is also a problem related to some other change.
Clocking would be a likely candidate. But again I wonder how this ever
worked properly without the suspend and resume callbacks.

Can you pinpoint more exactly when this failed to break. PXA PWM was
already included in 3.6-rc1 so if it is related then it should have
happened at that time already.

Thierry
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