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Thomas Zimmermann a1cacb8a8e backlight: Add BACKLIGHT_POWER_ constants for power states
Duplicate FB_BLANK_ constants as BACKLIGHT_POWER__ constants in the
backlight header file. Allows backlight drivers to avoid including
the fbdev header file and removes a compile-time dependency between
the two subsystems.

The new BACKLIGHT_POWER_ constants have the same values as their
FB_BLANK_ counterparts. Hence UAPI and internal semantics do not
change. The backlight drivers can be converted one by one. Each
instance of FB_BLANK_UNBLANK becomes BACKLIGHT_POWER_ON, each of
FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN becomes BACKLIGHT_POWER_OFF, and FB_BLANK_NORMAL
becomes BACKLIGHT_POWER_REDUCED.

Backlight code or drivers do not use FB_BLANK_VSYNC_SUSPEND and
FB_BLANK_HSYNC_SUSPEND, so no new constants for these are being
added.

The semantics of FB_BLANK_NORMAL appear inconsistent. In fbdev,
NORMAL means display off with sync enabled. In backlight code,
this translates to turn the backlight off, but some drivers
interpret it as backlight on. So we keep the current code as is,
but mark BACKLIGHT_POWER_REDUCED as deprecated. Drivers should be
fixed and the constant removed. This affects ams369fg06 and a few
DRM panel drivers.

v2:
- rename BL_CORE_ power constants to BACKLIGHT_POWER_ (Sam)
- fix documentation

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240624152033.25016-2-tzimmermann@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
2024-07-04 16:45:25 +01:00
arch 16 hotfixes, 11 of which are cc:stable. 2024-05-25 15:10:33 -07:00
block block-6.10-20240523 2024-05-23 13:44:47 -07:00
certs kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
crypto This push fixes a bug in the new ecc P521 code as well as a buggy 2024-05-20 08:47:54 -07:00
Documentation backlight: Add BACKLIGHT_POWER_ constants for power states 2024-07-04 16:45:25 +01:00
drivers backlight: lm3509_bl: Fix early returns in for_each_child_of_node() 2024-06-26 16:49:59 +01:00
fs four smb client fixes, including two important netfs integration fixes 2024-05-25 22:33:10 -07:00
include backlight: Add BACKLIGHT_POWER_ constants for power states 2024-07-04 16:45:25 +01:00
init Driver core changes for 6.10-rc1 2024-05-22 12:13:40 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.10-20240523 2024-05-23 13:41:49 -07:00
ipc Mainly singleton patches, documented in their respective changelogs. 2024-05-19 14:02:03 -07:00
kernel Misc fixes: 2024-05-25 14:48:40 -07:00
lib 16 hotfixes, 11 of which are cc:stable. 2024-05-25 15:10:33 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm 16 hotfixes, 11 of which are cc:stable. 2024-05-25 15:10:33 -07:00
net NFS client updates for Linux 6.10 2024-05-23 13:51:09 -07:00
rust LoongArch changes for v6.10 2024-05-22 09:43:07 -07:00
samples tracing/treewide: Remove second parameter of __assign_str() 2024-05-22 20:14:47 -04:00
scripts - A series ("kbuild: enable more warnings by default") from Arnd 2024-05-22 18:59:29 -07:00
security hardening fixes for v6.10-rc1 2024-05-24 08:33:44 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 6.10-rc1 2024-05-24 08:48:51 -07:00
tools Revert a patch causing a regression as described in the cset: 2024-05-26 09:54:26 -07:00
usr kbuild: use $(src) instead of $(srctree)/$(src) for source directory 2024-05-10 04:34:52 +09:00
virt The usual shower of singleton fixes and minor series all over MM, 2024-05-19 09:21:03 -07:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Drop Gustavo Pimentel as PCI DWC Maintainer 2024-03-27 13:41:02 -05:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS RTC for 6.10 2024-05-25 13:33:53 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.10-rc1 2024-05-26 15:20:12 -07:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.