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SubjectRe: [PATCH] drm/amd/display: Fix error code on failure to set brightness
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On 2021-06-08 12:32 a.m., Anand K Mistry wrote:
> The backlight_ops.update_status function is required to return a
> negative error code on failure. Returning a positive code may be
> interpreted as a success. This is true for the 'brightness' sysfs file,
> which passes through a non-zero value as the return value of the write()
> syscall. This is interpreted in user-space as a successful write of 1
> character, which is obviously wrong.
>
> It's not clear exactly what error code to use, but EINVAL should be
> reasonable.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anand K Mistry <amistry@google.com>

Thanks for your patch but this code has changed on amd-staging-drm-next.

Can you try with the latest? The new backlight_update_status will always
return 0 now.

Harry

> ---
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> index 652cc1a0e450..ad322613390d 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c
> @@ -3431,7 +3431,7 @@ static int amdgpu_dm_backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device *bd)
> else
> rc = dc_link_set_backlight_level(dm->backlight_link, brightness, 0);
>
> - return rc ? 0 : 1;
> + return rc ? 0 : -EINVAL;
> }
>
> static int amdgpu_dm_backlight_get_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd)
>

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