Panels with internal backlight need to assign their backlight member
directly.
Reported-by: Doug Anderson <diand...@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.wall...@linaro.org>
---
include/drm/drm_panel.h | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_panel.h b/include/drm/drm_panel.h
index 33605c3f0eba..1e63fadf1368 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_panel.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_panel.h
@@ -144,8 +144,9 @@ struct drm_panel {
* Backlight device, used to turn on backlight after the call
* to enable(), and to turn off backlight before the call to
* disable().
- * backlight is set by drm_panel_of_backlight() and drivers
- * shall not assign it.
+ * External backlight is assigned by drm_panel_of_backlight() while
+ * panel-internal backlight is assigned directly to this member by the
+ * panel driver.
*/
struct backlight_device *backlight;
--
2.31.1
