Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] ARM: dts: rockchip: veyron: Remove 0 point from brightness-levels

From: Doug Anderson
Date: Thu Oct 22 2020 - 19:11:58 EST


Hi,

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 10:05 PM Alexandru Stan <amstan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The extra 0 only adds one point in the userspace visible range,
> so this change is almost a noop with the current driver behavior.
>
> We don't need the 0% point, userspace seems to handle this just fine
> because it uses the bl_power property to turn off the display.
>
> Furthermore after adding "backlight: pwm_bl: Fix interpolation" patch,
> the backlight interpolation will work a little differently. So we need
> to preemptively remove the 0-3 segment since otherwise we would have a
> 252 long interpolation that would slowly go between 0 and 3, looking
> really bad in userspace. So it's almost a noop/cleanup now, but it will
> be required in the future.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexandru Stan <amstan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-jaq.dts | 2 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-minnie.dts | 2 +-
> arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288-veyron-tiger.dts | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>