linux-kernel - Re: spitz backlight: fix brightness limiting

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Message-ID: <20091023052052.GA15499@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:20:52 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
Cc:	Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	lenz@...wisc.edu, kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dirk@...er-online.de, arminlitzel@....de,
	Cyril Hrubis <metan@....cz>, thommycheck@...il.com,
	linux-arm-kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	dbaryshkov@...il.com, omegamoon@...il.com, utx@...guin.cz
Subject: Re: spitz backlight: fix brightness limiting

On Thu 2009-10-22 23:43:19, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 04:20 +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> > It's a little bit weird it's called 'limit_mask' when I first converted it
> > to a spi driver. There must be some reasons, Richard, you've got
> > any ideas?
> 
> Its a historical artifact that once worked through some bitfield magic
> but probably stopped working when we increased the range of values the
> backlight could accept and we didn't notice the limiting problem.
> 
> I'll happily take a patch to fix that.

Patch is available in the parent post. For now, I just fix it so that
it does not turn backlight off when it should not. I'll submit
limit_mask -> limit as separate patch, ok?
								Pavel
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