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From: Icenowy Zheng <zhengxingda@iscas.ac.cn>
To: Pengyu Luo <mitltlatltl@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@linaro.org>,
	Jessica Zhang	 <jesszhan0024@gmail.com>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	 Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
	 Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>, Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>,
	Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@kernel.org>,
	 Conor Dooley <conor+dt@kernel.org>,
	Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	 dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: display: panel: himax,hx83121a: add optional bl supply
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:36:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2877375c4efee4b4e816b418c965da7bd7d60992.camel@iscas.ac.cn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <178115560756.199930.11183711627429440356.b4-review@b4>

在 2026-06-11四的 13:26 +0800,Pengyu Luo写道:
> On Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:26:20 +0800, Icenowy Zheng
> <zhengxingda@iscas.ac.cn> wrote:
> > When the backlight is managed by the panel controller IC, an
> > external
> > power rail might be powering the backlight.
> > 
> > Add an optional `bl-supply` property to describe such power rail,
> > thus
> > allow disabling the backlight.
> > 
> 
> Please add it as a hwen pin, this will simplify your code later.

I am not sure whether this should be a pin or a regulator -- the DT
binding should reflect the HW fact, and LCD panel backlights usually
require a high voltage (or even a current source) that is driven by a
dedicated regulator.

Thanks,
Icenowy

> 
> > 
> > 
> > diff --git
> > a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/himax,hx83121a.ya
> > ml
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/himax,hx83121a.ya
> > ml
> > index e067a2f6d0b2..aeca3c9a599c 100644
> > ---
> > a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/himax,hx83121a.ya
> > ml
> > +++
> > b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/panel/himax,hx83121a.ya
> > ml
> > @@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ properties:
> >    vddi-supply:
> >      description: power supply for IC
> >  
> > +  bl-supply:
> > +    description: power supply for backlight, in case it's managed
> > via DSC
> > +
> 
> s/DSC/DCS/
> 
> Best wishes,
> Pengyu


  reply	other threads:[~2026-06-11  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-08 16:26 [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: display: panel: himax,hx83121a: add optional bl supply Icenowy Zheng
2026-06-08 16:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] drm/panel: himax-hx83121a: pass the panel pointer when creating BL Icenowy Zheng
2026-06-08 16:39   ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-18 12:23   ` Neil Armstrong
2026-06-08 16:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] drm/panel: himax-hx83121a: add backlight regulator support Icenowy Zheng
2026-06-08 16:49   ` sashiko-bot
2026-06-11  5:26   ` Pengyu Luo
2026-06-11  5:43     ` Icenowy Zheng
2026-06-11  5:51       ` Pengyu Luo
2026-06-18 12:23   ` Neil Armstrong
2026-06-08 17:11 ` [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: display: panel: himax,hx83121a: add optional bl supply Conor Dooley
2026-06-11  5:26 ` Pengyu Luo
2026-06-11  5:36   ` Icenowy Zheng [this message]
2026-06-11  5:45     ` Pengyu Luo
2026-06-11  6:15       ` Icenowy Zheng
2026-06-18 14:01 ` Neil Armstrong

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