linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] backlight: lp855x: Add support ACPI enumeration

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Date:   Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:14:30 +0000
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
Cc:     Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@...il.com>,
        Tsuchiya Yuto <kitakar@...il.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] backlight: lp855x: Add support ACPI enumeration

On Tue, 02 Nov 2021, Hans de Goede wrote:

> The Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 tablet uses an ACPI enumerated LP8556 backlight
> controller for its LCD-panel, with a Xiaomi specific ACPI HID of
> "XMCC0001", add support for this.
> 
> Note the new "if (id)" check also fixes a NULL pointer deref when a user
> tries to manually bind the driver from sysfs.
> 
> When CONFIG_ACPI is disabled acpi_match_device() will always return NULL,
> so the lp855x_parse_acpi() call will get optimized away.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Remove `lp->pdata = pdata` assignment from lp855x_parse_dt()
> - Add "and is in register mode" to the comment in
>   lp855x_parse_acpi()
> ---
>  drivers/video/backlight/lp855x_bl.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 61 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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