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Date:   Thu, 13 Jun 2019 08:43:57 -0700
From:   Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
To:     Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] backlight: pwm_bl: Fix heuristic to determine number of
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 11:14:55AM +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> On 12/6/19 20:00, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > With commit 88ba95bedb79 ("backlight: pwm_bl: Compute brightness of
> > LED linearly to human eye") the number of set bits (aka hweight())
> > in the PWM period is used in the heuristic to determine the number
> > of brightness levels, when the brightness table isn't specified in
> > the DT. The number of set bits doesn't provide a reliable clue about
> > the length of the period, instead change the heuristic to:
> > 
> >  nlevels = period / fls(period)
> > 
> > Also limit the maximum number of brightness levels to 4096 to avoid
> > excessively large tables.
> > 
> > With this the number of levels increases monotonically with the PWM
> > period, until the maximum of 4096 levels is reached:
> > 
> > period (ns)    # levels
> > 
> > 100    	       16
> > 500	       62
> > 1000	       111
> > 5000	       416
> > 10000	       769
> > 50000	       3333
> > 100000	       4096
> > 
> > Fixes: 88ba95bedb79 ("backlight: pwm_bl: Compute brightness of LED linearly to human eye")
> > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
> 
> Tested on Samsung Chromebook Plus (16-bit pwm)
> 
> Tested-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>

Thanks!