History log of /linux-master/include/linux/pwm_backlight.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 5a7fbe45 17-Nov-2022 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

backlight: pwm_bl: Drop support for legacy PWM probing

There is no in-tree user left which relies on legacy probing. So drop
support for it which removes another user of the deprecated
pwm_request() function.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221117072151.3789691-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de


# 2644f912 10-Feb-2020 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>

backlight: pwm_bl: Switch to full GPIO descriptor

The PWM backlight still supports passing a enable GPIO line as
platform data using the legacy <linux/gpio.h> API.

It turns out that ever board using this mechanism except one
is pass .enable_gpio = -1. So we drop all these cargo-culted -1's
from all instances of this platform data in the kernel.

The remaning board, Palm TC, is converted to pass a machine
descriptior table with the "enable" GPIO instead, and delete the
platform data entry for enable_gpio and the code handling it
and things should work smoothly with the new API.

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@free.fr>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>


# 3157694d 28-Mar-2018 Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>

pwm-backlight: Add support for PWM delays proprieties.

Some panels (i.e. N116BGE-L41), in their power sequence specifications,
request a delay between set the PWM signal and enable the backlight and
between clear the PWM signal and disable the backlight. Add support for
the new post-pwm-on-delay-ms and pwm-off-delay-ms proprieties to meet
the timings.

Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@collabora.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 257462db 26-Feb-2014 Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>

pwm-backlight: switch to gpiod interface

Switch to the new gpiod interface, which allows to handle GPIO
properties such as active low transparently and removes a whole bunch of
code.

There are still a couple of users of this driver that rely on passing
the enable GPIO number through platform data, so a fallback mechanism
using a GPIO number is still available to avoid breaking them. It will
be removed once current users have switched to the GPIO lookup tables
provided by the gpiod interface.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>


# 2b9b1620 30-Aug-2013 Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>

pwm-backlight: Add optional enable GPIO

To support a wider variety of backlight setups, introduce an optional
enable GPIO. Legacy users of the platform data already have a means of
supporting GPIOs by using the .init(), .exit() and .notify() hooks. DT
users however cannot use those, so an alternative method is required.

In order to ease the introduction of the optional enable GPIO, make it
available in the platform data first, so that existing users can be
converted. Once that has happened a second patch will add code to make
use of it in the driver.

Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>


# 3e3ed6cd 16-Dec-2011 Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>

pwm-backlight: Add rudimentary device tree support

This commit adds very basic support for device tree probing. Currently,
only a PWM and a list of distinct brightness levels can be specified.
Enabling or disabling backlight power via GPIOs is not yet supported.

Reviewed-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@avionic-design.de>


# cc7993f6 25-Aug-2011 Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com>

backlight: add a callback 'notify_after' for backlight control

We need a callback to do some things after pwm_enable, pwm_disable
and pwm_config.

Signed-off-by: Dilan Lee <dilee@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# ef0a5e80 22-Mar-2011 Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>

pwm_backlight: add check_fb() hook

In systems with multiple framebuffer devices, one of the devices might be
blanked while another is unblanked. In order for the backlight blanking
logic to know whether to turn off the backlight for a particular
framebuffer's blanking notification, it needs to be able to check if a
given framebuffer device corresponds to the backlight.

This plumbs the check_fb hook from core backlight through the
pwm_backlight helper to allow platform code to plug in a check_fb hook.

Signed-off-by: Robert Morell <rmorell@nvidia.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# fef7764f 11-Nov-2010 Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>

backlight: add low threshold to pwm backlight

The intensity of the backlight can be varied from a range of
max_brightness to zero. Though most, if not all the pwm based backlight
devices start flickering at lower brightness value. And also for each
device there exists a brightness value below which the backlight appears
to be turned off though the value is not equal to zero.

If the range of brightness for a device is from zero to max_brightness. A
graph is plotted for brightness Vs intensity for the pwm based backlight
device has to be a linear graph.

intensity
| /
| /
| /
|/
---------
0 max_brightness

But pratically on measuring the above we note that the intensity of
backlight goes to zero(OFF) when the value in not zero almost nearing to
zero(some x%). so the graph looks like

intensity
| /
| /
| /
| |
------------
0 x max_brightness

In order to overcome this drawback knowing this x% i.e nothing but the low
threshold beyond which the backlight is off and will have no effect, the
brightness value is being offset by the low threshold value(retaining the
linearity of the graph). Now the graph becomes

intensity
| /
| /
| /
| /
-------------
0 max_brightness

With this for each and every digit increment in the brightness from zero
there is a change in the intensity of backlight. Devices having this
behaviour can set the low threshold brightness(lth_brightness) and pass
the same as platform data else can have it as zero.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Arun Murthy <arun.murthy@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# cfc3899f 10-Nov-2009 Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>

backlight: Pass device through notify callback in the pwm driver

Add the device to the notify callback's arguments in the PWM backlight
driver. This brings the notify callback into line with the other
callbacks defined by this driver.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben@simtec.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Simtec Linux Team <linux@simtec.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>


# 3b73125a 22-May-2008 Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>

[ARM] 5044/1: pwm_bl: add init/notify/exit callbacks

This allows platform code to manipulate GPIOs and brightness level as
needed.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>


# 42796d37 14-Apr-2008 eric miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>

[ARM] pxa: add generic PWM backlight driver

Patch mostly from Eric Miao, with minor edits by rmk to convert
Eric's driver to a generic PWM-based backlight driver.

Signed-off-by: eric miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>