linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: rockchip: drop veyron's nonstandard 'backlight-boot-off'

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Message-ID: <3929059.IgKPAvtPnp@phil>
Date:   Sat, 13 Jan 2018 19:49:30 +0100
From:   Heiko Stuebner <heiko@...ech.de>
To:     Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>
Cc:     Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@...dia.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org, Lin Huang <hl@...k-chips.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: rockchip: drop veyron's nonstandard 'backlight-boot-off'

Am Freitag, 5. Januar 2018, 16:47:55 CET schrieb Brian Norris:
> This was used out-of-tree as a hack for resolving issues where some
> systems expect the backlight to turn on automatically at boot, while
> others expect to manage the backlight status via a DRM/panel driver.
> Those issues have since been fixed upstream in pwm_bl.c without device
> tree hacks, and so this un-documented property should no longer be
> useful.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>

applied (for 4.17 though)


Thanks
Heiko