backlight: add backlight type

There may be multiple ways of controlling the backlight on a given
machine.  Allow drivers to expose the type of interface they are
providing, making it possible for userspace to make appropriate policy
decisions.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Matthew Garrett
2011-03-22 16:30:21 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ccd7510fd8
commit bb7ca747f8
59 changed files with 111 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -19,6 +19,12 @@
#include <asm/backlight.h>
#endif
static const char const *backlight_types[] = {
[BACKLIGHT_RAW] = "raw",
[BACKLIGHT_PLATFORM] = "platform",
[BACKLIGHT_FIRMWARE] = "firmware",
};
#if defined(CONFIG_FB) || (defined(CONFIG_FB_MODULE) && \
defined(CONFIG_BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE_MODULE))
/* This callback gets called when something important happens inside a
@@ -169,6 +175,14 @@ static ssize_t backlight_store_brightness(struct device *dev,
return rc;
}
static ssize_t backlight_show_type(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
struct backlight_device *bd = to_backlight_device(dev);
return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", backlight_types[bd->props.type]);
}
static ssize_t backlight_show_max_brightness(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
@@ -234,6 +248,7 @@ static struct device_attribute bl_device_attributes[] = {
__ATTR(actual_brightness, 0444, backlight_show_actual_brightness,
NULL),
__ATTR(max_brightness, 0444, backlight_show_max_brightness, NULL),
__ATTR(type, 0444, backlight_show_type, NULL),
__ATTR_NULL,
};
@@ -292,9 +307,16 @@ struct backlight_device *backlight_device_register(const char *name,
dev_set_drvdata(&new_bd->dev, devdata);
/* Set default properties */
if (props)
if (props) {
memcpy(&new_bd->props, props,
sizeof(struct backlight_properties));
if (props->type <= 0 || props->type >= BACKLIGHT_TYPE_MAX) {
WARN(1, "%s: invalid backlight type", name);
new_bd->props.type = BACKLIGHT_RAW;
}
} else {
new_bd->props.type = BACKLIGHT_RAW;
}
rc = device_register(&new_bd->dev);
if (rc) {