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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@@ -729,6 +729,8 @@ static int taal_probe(struct omap_dss_device *dssdev)
props.max_brightness = 255;
else
props.max_brightness = 127;
props.type = BACKLIGHT_RAW;
bldev = backlight_device_register("taal", &dssdev->dev, dssdev,
&taal_bl_ops, &props);
if (IS_ERR(bldev)) {