Date:   Sun, 19 Mar 2023 19:44:13 +0100
From:   Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To:     Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc:     Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] auxdisplay: ht16k33: Introduce
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On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 02:44:08PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:12:02 +0100, Robin van der Gracht <robin@protonic.nl>
> wrote:
> > On 2023-01-08 10:29, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 10:02:38PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:  
> > >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 7:26 PM Sam Ravnborg via B4 Submission Endpoint
> > >> <devnull+sam.ravnborg.org@kernel.org> wrote:  
> > >> >
> > >> > Introduce backlight_get_brightness() to simplify logic
> > >> > and avoid direct access to backlight properties.  
> > >> 
> > >> Note: Stephen sent this one too a while ago (with some more details in
> > >> the commit message, which is always nice); and then he sent yesterday
> > >> v2 [1] (to mention the functional change with `BL_CORE_SUSPENDED`
> > >> [2]).  
> > > Thanks for the pointers. I will try to move forward with Stephen's
> > > patches.  
> > >> 
> > >> Anyway, if it goes via drm-misc, feel free to have my:
> > >> 
> > >>     Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
> > >> 
> > >> Though it would be nice to have Robin test the change.  
> > > 
> > > Robin - can I get your ack to apply Stephen's original v2 patch to
> > > drm-misc?  
> > 
> > done! see: 
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0b16391f997e6ed005a326e4e48f2033@protonic.nl/
> 
> As far as I can tell, this never got applied to drm-misc, and I don’t see it
> anywhere else. I guess it slipped through the cracks ;-)

Yes, I have been busy with a lot of other stuff lately, and cannot
promise when I get back to do Linux work.
So if someone else could pick it up that would be nice.

	Sam