linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] backlight: Remove notifier

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Message-ID: <20241009134710.GA16179@aspen.lan>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 14:47:10 +0100
From: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
Cc: linux@...blig.org, jingoohan1@...il.com, hdegoede@...hat.com,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: Remove notifier

On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 11:22:30AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, Simona Vetter wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 12:27:58AM +0100, linux@...blig.org wrote:
> > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>
> > >
> > > backlight_register_notifier and backlight_unregister_notifier have
> > > been unused since
> > >   commit 6cb634d0dc85 ("ACPI: video: Remove code to unregister acpi_video
> > > backlight when a native backlight registers")
> > >
> > > With those not being called, it means that the backlight_notifier
> > > list is always empty.
> > >
> > > Remove the functions, the list itself and the enum used in the
> > > notifications.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@...blig.org>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Simona Vetter <simona.vetter@...ll.ch>
> >
> > I think Lee Jones or Daniel Thompson will pick this up.
>
> I will pick this up with Daniel's review.

Thanks for the patch... sorry for the delay. I just bumped this up my
TODO list a little ;-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>


Daniel.