Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Revive combination mode for backlight control

2011-03-11 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Fri, March 11, 2011 08:26, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:23:08 +0100 (CET), > Indan Zupancic wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Some nitpicks below. I know you're just restoring the original code, >> but if we improve it we can as well do it now. > > Well, Linus already merged my patch quickl

Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Revive combination mode for backlight control

2011-03-10 Thread Keith Packard
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:23:08 +0100 (CET), "Indan Zupancic" wrote: > Some nitpicks below. I know you're just restoring the original code, > but if we improve it we can as well do it now. Let's pend these changes until after 2.6.38; the backlight code is fragile enough without trying to 'clean it

Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Revive combination mode for backlight control

2011-03-10 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:23:08 +0100 (CET), Indan Zupancic wrote: > > Hi, > > Some nitpicks below. I know you're just restoring the original code, > but if we improve it we can as well do it now. Well, Linus already merged my patch quickly. So, we can improve the readability as an additional patc

Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Revive combination mode for backlight control

2011-03-10 Thread Indan Zupancic
On Thu, March 10, 2011 20:36, Keith Packard wrote: > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:02:12 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> +val &= ~1; > > The reason for this is that some ancient platforms wire this bit to > be "go to max backlight", or at least that's why this was in the 2D > driver fro

Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Revive combination mode for backlight control

2011-03-10 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Indan Zupancic wrote: > > After this patch, combined with my new patch > > "drm/i915: Fix DPMS and suspend interaction for intel_panel.c" > > all known backlight problems should be fixed. Btw, can you repost that one as a new email (and cc keithp too)? I think it

Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Revive combination mode for backlight control

2011-03-10 Thread Indan Zupancic
Hi, Some nitpicks below. I know you're just restoring the original code, but if we improve it we can as well do it now. On Thu, March 10, 2011 14:02, Takashi Iwai wrote: > This reverts commit 951f3512dba5bd44cda3e5ee22b4b522e4bb09fb > > drm/i915: Do not handle backlight combination mode speci

Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Revive combination mode for backlight control

2011-03-10 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:02:12 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote: > This reverts commit 951f3512dba5bd44cda3e5ee22b4b522e4bb09fb > > drm/i915: Do not handle backlight combination mode specially > > since this commit introduced other regressions due to untouched LBPC > register, e.g. the backlight dimm