[PATCH v2] video: backlight: Remove backlight sysfs uevent

[PATCH v2] video: backlight: Remove backlight sysfs uevent

[Kyungmin Park]

From: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>

The most mobile phones have Ambient Light Sensors and it changes brightness according lux.
It means it changes backlight brightness frequently by just writing sysfs node, so it generates uevent.
 
Usually there's no user to use this backlight changes. But it forks udev worker threads and it takes about 5ms. The main problem is that it hurts other process activities. so remove it.

Kay said 
"Uevents are for the major, low-frequent, global device state-changes,
 not for carrying-out any sort of measurement data. Subsystems which
 need that should use other facilities like poll()-able sysfs file or
 any other subscription-based, client-tracking interface which does not
 cause overhead if it isn't used. Uevents are not the right thing to
 use here, and upstream udev should not paper-over broken kernel
 subsystems."

Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
---
v1: there's still user to use BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS. so just remove store sysfs node uevent

---
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
index 94a403a..292cf99 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
@@ -172,8 +172,6 @@ static ssize_t brightness_store(struct device *dev,
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&bd->ops_lock);
 
-	backlight_generate_event(bd, BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS);
-
 	return rc;
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(brightness);

Re: [PATCH v2] video: backlight: Remove backlight sysfs uevent

[Jingoo Han]

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 12:39 PM, Kyungmin Park wrote:
>
> From: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
> 
> The most mobile phones have Ambient Light Sensors and it changes brightness according lux.
> It means it changes backlight brightness frequently by just writing sysfs node, so it generates uevent.
> 
> Usually there's no user to use this backlight changes. But it forks udev worker threads and it takes
> about 5ms. The main problem is that it hurts other process activities. so remove it.
> 
> Kay said
> "Uevents are for the major, low-frequent, global device state-changes,
>  not for carrying-out any sort of measurement data. Subsystems which
>  need that should use other facilities like poll()-able sysfs file or
>  any other subscription-based, client-tracking interface which does not
>  cause overhead if it isn't used. Uevents are not the right thing to
>  use here, and upstream udev should not paper-over broken kernel
>  subsystems."
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>

Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>

Best regards,
Jingoo Han

> ---
> v1: there's still user to use BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS. so just remove store sysfs node uevent
> 
> ---
> diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
> index 94a403a..292cf99 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
> @@ -172,8 +172,6 @@ static ssize_t brightness_store(struct device *dev,
>  	}
>  	mutex_unlock(&bd->ops_lock);
> 
> -	backlight_generate_event(bd, BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS);
> -
>  	return rc;
>  }
>  static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(brightness);