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Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] backlight: pwm_bl: Fix brightness levels for non-DT
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To:     Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>,
        Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>
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        Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
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From:   Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
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Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 09:23:49 -0700
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On 25/08/18 01:04, Robert Jarzmik wrote:
> Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com> writes:
> 
>> Commit '88ba95bedb79 ("backlight: pwm_bl: Compute brightness of LED
>> linearly to human eye")' allows the possibility to compute a default
>> brightness table when there isn't the brightness-levels property in the
>> DT. Unfortunately the changes made broke the pwm backlight for the
>> non-DT boards.
>>
>> Usually, the non-DT boards don't pass the brightness levels via platform
>> data, instead, they set the max_brightness in their platform data and the
>> driver calculates the level without a table. The ofending patch assumed
>> that when there is no brightness levels table we should create one, but this
>> is clearly wrong for the non-DT case.
>>
>> After this patch the code handles the DT and the non-DT case taking in
>> consideration also if max_brightness is set or not. The default table is
>> only created when neither, brightness-levels and max_brightness, are
>> set.
>>
>> The patch also fixes another issue found by Robert. Before this patch
>> looks like a division by 0 was possible when state.period returned 0 by
>> pwm_get_state(). This is because pwm_get_state() was called before
>> pwm_apply_args() so state.period was not initialized. The patch moves
>> the pwm_apply_args() call before any call to pwm_get_state().
>>
>> Fixes: '88ba95bedb79 ("backlight: pwm_bl: Compute brightness of LED linearly to human eye")'
>> Reported-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
>> Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>
> Tested-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>

Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>

(and sorry for the delay)


Daniel.