Patch "drm/radeon: move bl encoder assignment into bl init" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

Patch "drm/radeon: move bl encoder assignment into bl init" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drm/radeon: move bl encoder assignment into bl init

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     drm-radeon-move-bl-encoder-assignment-into-bl-init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4cee6a9057d5e13911f0cb6e143d11dc1a3245dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:26:32 -0400
Subject: drm/radeon: move bl encoder assignment into bl init
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From: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>

commit 4cee6a9057d5e13911f0cb6e143d11dc1a3245dd upstream.

So that the bl encoder will be null if the GPU does not
control the backlight.

Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c      |    1 +
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_encoders.c        |    1 -
 drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_legacy_encoders.c |    1 +
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios_encoders.c
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@ void radeon_atom_backlight_init(struct r
 	backlight_update_status(bd);
 
 	DRM_INFO("radeon atom DIG backlight initialized\n");
+	rdev->mode_info.bl_encoder = radeon_encoder;
 
 	return;
 
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_encoders.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_encoders.c
@@ -194,7 +194,6 @@ static void radeon_encoder_add_backlight
 			radeon_atom_backlight_init(radeon_encoder, connector);
 		else
 			radeon_legacy_backlight_init(radeon_encoder, connector);
-		rdev->mode_info.bl_encoder = radeon_encoder;
 	}
 }
 
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_legacy_encoders.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_legacy_encoders.c
@@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ void radeon_legacy_backlight_init(struct
 	backlight_update_status(bd);
 
 	DRM_INFO("radeon legacy LVDS backlight initialized\n");
+	rdev->mode_info.bl_encoder = radeon_encoder;
 
 	return;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from alexander.deucher@amd.com are

queue-4.2/drm-radeon-move-bl-encoder-assignment-into-bl-init.patch
queue-4.2/drm-amdgpu-add-missing-dpm-check-for-kv-dpm-late-init.patch
queue-4.2/drm-radeon-fix-dpms-when-driver-backlight-control-is-disabled.patch
queue-4.2/drm-amdgpu-don-t-try-to-recreate-sysfs-entries-on-resume.patch
queue-4.2/drm-radeon-don-t-try-to-recreate-sysfs-entries-on-resume.patch
queue-4.2/drm-radeon-dpm-don-t-add-pwm-attributes-if-dpm-is-disabled.patch