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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] pwm-backlight: fix the panel power sequence
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Am Mittwoch, den 04.11.2015, 09:47 +0800 schrieb YH Huang:
> On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 12:08 +0100, Philipp Zabel wrote:
> > Hi YH,
> >
> > Am Dienstag, den 03.11.2015, 16:11 +0800 schrieb YH Huang:
> > > > The reasoning is that devices where there is no phandle link pointing to
> > > > the backlight (for example from a simple-panel node), we should keep the
> > > > current default behaviour (enable during probe).
> > >
> > > I have a little problem for the current default behaviour.
> > > Should we enable during probe?
> >
> > Here I mean enabling the backlight (at the end of the probe function),
> > not enabling the GPIO already when requesting it.
> >
> > > Before this patch ( http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/324690/ ),
> > > we disable "enable-gpio" in the probe function.
> >
> > While before this patch the GPIO would be initialized in the disabled
> > state, the call to backlight_update_status at the end of the probe
> > function would still enable the backlight afterwards.
>
> Based on this, could we disable it initially and update in the
> backlight_update_status function?
>
> Like this,
>
> if (pb->enable_gpio) {
> if (phandle &&
> gpiod_get_direction(pb->enable_gpio) == GPIOF_DIR_OUT &&
> gpiod_get_value(pb->enable_gpio) == 1)
> gpiod_direction_output(pb->enable_gpio, 1);

The gpiod_direction_output call is a no-op, since the direction is
already output and the value is already 1.
Also, I propose to set initial blanking to FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN in this
case, and wait for the panel driver to enable the backlight at the
appropriate time.

regards
Philipp



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