On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 06:58:33AM +0200, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote: > On 11:13 Mon 21 Oct , Denis Carikli wrote: > > Cc: Richard Purdie <[email protected]> > > Cc: Jingoo Han <[email protected]> > > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]> > > Cc: Rob Herring <[email protected]> > > Cc: Pawel Moll <[email protected]> > > Cc: Mark Rutland <[email protected]> > > Cc: Stephen Warren <[email protected]> > > Cc: Ian Campbell <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Cc: Sascha Hauer <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected] > > Cc: Lothar Waßmann <[email protected]> > > Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <[email protected]> > > Cc: Eric Bénard <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Denis Carikli <[email protected]> > > --- > > ChangeLog v3->v4: > > - The default-brightness property is now optional, it defaults to 1 if not > > set. > by default we set OFF not ON > > do not actiate driver or properti by default you can not known to consequence > on the hw
Turning on a backlight by default is what pretty much every backlight driver does. I personally think that's the wrong default, I even tried to get some discussion started recently about how we could change this. However, given that this has been the case for possibly as long as the subsystem has existed, suddenly changing it might cause quite a few of our users to boot the new kernel and not see their display come up. As with any other ABI, this isn't something we can just change without a very good migration path. In my opinion every backlight should be hooked up to a display panel, and the display panel driver should be the one responsible for turning the backlight on or off. That's the only way we can guarantee that the backlight is turned on at the right moment so that glitches can be avoided. One possible migration path would be to update all display panel drivers to cope with an associated backlight device, but even if somebody would even find the time to write the code to do that, I can imagine that we'd have a hard time getting this tested since a lot of the boards that rely on these backlight drivers are legacy and probably no longer very actively used. Thierry
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