Re: [PATCH] backlight: remove obsolete comment for ->state

From: Lee Jones
Date: Wed Jul 04 2018 - 05:34:56 EST


> Jani spotted this when reviewing my earlier patch to remove the driver
> internal usage of this field in
>
> commit 3cf91adaa594e8933af1727942ac560e5c7bc70e
> Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed Apr 25 19:42:52 2018 +0200
>
> backlight: Nuke BL_CORE_DRIVER1

FYI, sending patches like this is not a good idea.

I'll clean it up for you this time, but in future please send patches
properly and place any additional comments you may have below the
'---' line.

> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/backlight.h | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
> index 7fbf0539e14a..0b5897446dca 100644
> --- a/include/linux/backlight.h
> +++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
> @@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ struct backlight_properties {
> /* Backlight type */
> enum backlight_type type;
> /* Flags used to signal drivers of state changes */
> - /* Upper 4 bits are reserved for driver internal use */
> unsigned int state;
>
> #define BL_CORE_SUSPENDED (1 << 0) /* backlight is suspended */

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