Re: [PATCH v2] backlight: pwm_bl: Fix brightness levels for non-DT case.

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Tue Nov 06 2018 - 15:53:18 EST


On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 11:34:41AM +0100, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> Commit '88ba95bedb79 ("backlight: pwm_bl: Compute brightness of LED
> linearly to human eye")' allows the possibility to compute a default
> brightness table when there isn't the brightness-levels property in the
> DT. Unfortunately the changes made broke the pwm backlight for the
> non-DT boards.
>
> Usually, the non-DT boards don't pass the brightness levels via platform
> data, instead, it sets the max_brightness in their platform data and the
> driver calculates the level without a table. The ofending patch assumed

s/ofending/offending/

> hat when there is no brightness levels table we should create one, but this

s/hat/that/

> is clearly wrong for the non-DT case.
>
> After this patch the code handles the DT and the non-DT case taking in
> consideration also if max_brightness is set or not.
>
> Fixes: '88ba95bedb79 ("backlight: pwm_bl: Compute brightness of LED linearly to human eye")'

These ' are unusual.

Best regards
Uwe

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