From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
To: Ying Liu <victor.liu@nxp.com>
Cc: "dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] backlight: gpio_backlight: Drop output gpio direction check for initial power state
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:42:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230721084251.GF2525277@aspen.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230721073555.1377236-1-victor.liu@nxp.com>
On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 07:31:37AM +0000, Ying Liu wrote:
> If gpio pin is in input state but backlight is currently off due to
> default pull downs, then initial power state is set to FB_BLANK_UNBLANK
> in DT boot mode with phandle link and the backlight is effectively
> turned on in gpio_backlight_probe(), which is undesirable according to
> patch description of commit ec665b756e6f ("backlight: gpio-backlight:
> Correct initial power state handling").
>
> Quote:
> ---
> If in DT boot we have phandle link then leave the GPIO in a state which the
> bootloader left it and let the user of the backlight to configure it further.
> ---
>
> So, let's drop output gpio direction check and only check gpio value to set
> the initial power state.
>
> Signed-off-by: Liu Ying <victor.liu@nxp.com>
Based on the discussion for v1 about 706dc68102bc ("backlight: gpio:
Explicitly set the direction of the GPIO"), I think there should
be a Fixes: tag here.
Daniel.
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2023-07-21 7:31 [PATCH v2] backlight: gpio_backlight: Drop output gpio direction check for initial power state Ying Liu
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