linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/6] backlight: Also nuke BL_CORE

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Message-ID: <bd362814-18f4-fd36-1528-994a539dab72@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:51:45 +0000
From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To:     Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        DRI Development <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] backlight: Also nuke BL_CORE_DRIVER1



On 17/01/18 14:01, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Now that the 3 drivers using this are cleaned up we can also remove
> this final bit of confusion of leaking driver internals into the
> backlight power interface.
> 
> The backlight power interface itself is still a massive mess.
> 
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
> Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>


> ---
>   include/linux/backlight.h | 1 -
>   1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
> index 9776edb0ff06..b6f7c99d1c8e 100644
> --- a/include/linux/backlight.h
> +++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
> @@ -84,7 +84,6 @@ struct backlight_properties {
>   
>   #define BL_CORE_SUSPENDED	(1 << 0)	/* backlight is suspended */
>   #define BL_CORE_FBBLANK		(1 << 1)	/* backlight is under an fb blank event */
> -#define BL_CORE_DRIVER1		(1 << 31)	/* reserved for driver specific use */
>   
>   };
>   
>