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

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Message-ID: <20241009102230.GC276481@google.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2024 11:22:30 +0100
From: Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
To: linux@...blig.org, daniel.thompson@...aro.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 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.

-- 
Lee Jones [李琼斯]