linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] imxfb: correct location of callbacks in suspend and resume

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:19:57 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	trivial@...nel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] imxfb: correct location of callbacks in suspend and
 resume

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:41:01 +0100 Uwe Kleine-K__nig <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> wrote:

> > What were the runtime effects of this bug?
> For me it was that in the original imxfb_info *fbi backlight_power was
> NULL but in imxfb_suspend it was 4 resulting in an oops as imxfb_suspend
> calls imxfb_disable_controller(fbi) which in turn has
> 
> 	if (fbi->backlight_power)
> 		fbi->backlight_power(0);

OK, thanks, that was important info.

I rescheduled the patch for 2.6.33 and marked it for 2.6.32.x backporting.
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