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Message-ID: <5a61ae6a-8a16-8abb-e718-895c41e2e7a8@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 1 Nov 2022 09:11:54 +0700
From:   Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>
To:     antoniospg <antoniospg100@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     sam@...nborg.org, Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
        Karol Herbst <kherbst@...hat.com>,
        Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: Add support to control backlight using
 bl_power for nva3.

On 10/31/22 23:32, antoniospg wrote:
> Summary:
> 
> * Add support to turn on/off backlight when changing values in bl_power
>   file. This is achieved by using function backlight_get_brightness()
>   in nva3_set_intensity to get current brightness.
> 

This is [PATCH v2], right? If so, next time please pass -v <version
number> to git-format-patch(1).

Also, just say the prose without using bullet list. "Summary:" line
is also redundant. And again, please describe why this change be made.

> Test plan:
> 
> * Turn off:
> echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/nv_backlight/bl_power
> 
> * Turn on:
> echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/nv_backlight/bl_power
> 

Shouldn't "test plan" above be documented in Documentation/ instead?

Last but not least, is "antoniospg" your real, legal name?

Thanks.

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