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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>,
	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>,
	Tomi Valkeinen <tomba@iki.fi>, Alex Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>,
	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>,
	Mark Zhang <markz@nvidia.com>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@calxeda.com>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org" 
	<devicetree-discuss@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv9 1/3] Runtime Interpreted Power Sequences
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:46:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121127164607.GG4468@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3136860.Z3VvKjeKpU@avalon>

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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:37:32PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote:

> One possibly crazy idea I had was to replace backlight devices as we know them 
> with LED devices (a LED driver IC shouldn't be supported by different APIs 
> depending on whether the LEDs it drives are used as a backlight or not), and 
> have the panel hook up with the associated LED device to expose backlight 
> operations through the CDF. Panels with a backlight controller tied to the 
> panel controller (control through DSI for instance) would implement the 
> backlight operations directly without instantiating a LED device. This still 
> leaves the question of the userspace backlight brightness API open.

I remember looking at that before but never actually got round to it, it
seems like a sensible idea to me.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-27 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-17 10:55 [PATCHv9 0/3] Runtime Interpreted Power Sequences Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-17 10:55 ` [PATCHv9 1/3] " Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-17 11:38   ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-11-19  2:29     ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-19  2:32       ` Anton Vorontsov
2012-11-20 14:48   ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21  1:56     ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-21  8:13       ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21  8:32         ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-21  8:48           ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21 10:00             ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-22 13:01               ` Grant Likely
2012-11-20 21:54   ` Grant Likely
2012-11-21  1:31     ` Mark Brown
2012-11-21 16:44       ` Grant Likely
2012-11-22  8:57       ` Linus Walleij
2012-11-22  9:55         ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-23  1:44         ` Mark Brown
2012-11-21  4:23     ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-21 11:06       ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21 11:40         ` Thierry Reding
2012-11-21 12:04           ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21 13:00             ` Thierry Reding
2012-11-21 13:32               ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-21 15:02                 ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-21 15:12                   ` Thierry Reding
2012-11-22  2:01                     ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-22  2:06                       ` Mark Brown
2012-11-22  3:09                         ` Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-22 13:39                     ` Grant Likely
2012-11-27 15:19               ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-11-27 15:08             ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-11-27 15:19               ` Tomi Valkeinen
2012-11-27 15:37                 ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-11-27 16:46                   ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-11-27 14:47           ` Laurent Pinchart
2012-11-22 13:39       ` Grant Likely
2012-11-22 21:40         ` Thierry Reding
2012-11-26 11:49           ` Alex Courbot
2012-11-26 15:34           ` Grant Likely
2012-11-17 10:55 ` [PATCHv9 2/3] pwm_backlight: use power sequences Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-17 10:55 ` [PATCHv9 3/3] Take maintainership of " Alexandre Courbot
2012-11-20 21:58 ` [PATCHv9 0/3] Runtime Interpreted Power Sequences Grant Likely

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