On Tue 17 Apr 17:42 PDT 2018, abhin...@codeaurora.org wrote: > Adding another point. > > On 2018-04-17 17:04, abhin...@codeaurora.org wrote: > > Hi Bjorn > > > > Apologies if the prev reply wasnt clear. > > > > Hope this one is. > > > > reply inline. > > > > On 2018-04-17 14:29, Bjorn Andersson wrote: > > > On Tue 17 Apr 11:21 PDT 2018, abhin...@codeaurora.org wrote: > > > > On 2018-04-16 23:13, Bjorn Andersson wrote: > > > [..] > > > > > If the panel isn't actually a piece of backlight hardware then it > > > > > should > > > > > not register a backlight device. Why do you need your own sysfs? > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > Bjorn > > > > [Abhinav] This particular panel isnt a piece of backlight hardware. > > > > But, we want to have our own sysfs to give flexibility to our > > > > userspace > > > > to write and read stuff for its proprietary uses. > > > > > > Please be more specific in your replies, no one will accept code that > > > "does stuff" and expecting a reviewer to spend time guessing or > > > pulling > > > the information out of you is a sure way to get your patches ignored. > > > > > > Exactly what kind of stuff are you talking about here and exactly > > > which > > > problem are you solving. > > > > > > > Thats how our downstream has been working so far and hence to > > > > maintain > > > > the compatibility would like to have it. > > > > > > Make your proprietary code work with the upstream kernel and you > > > shouldn't ever have to modify it. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Bjorn > > > > [Abhinav] We have a few userspace clients today for the backlight sysfs > > node > > which read/write directly to > > "/sys/class/backlight/panel0-backlight/brightness" > > When I said "stuff" I was only referring to the brightness value. > > This separate sysfs node allows us to validate those userspace features > > of ours > > which directly edit the backlight value on our reference platform. > > Since our reference platform uses this panel,hence having our own > > sysfs alias helps. > > Otherwise, whenever we try to use this panel with upstream code we > > will have to end up > > changing all those places in our userspace/framework to change the sysfs > > path. > > Hence we wanted to preserve that sysfs node name. > > The wled device is not created under /sys/class/backlight but under > > /sys/class/leds/wled. > > So we will have to change the name of this node across all our > > userspace. > > > > If this isnt a convincing reason enough to have its own sysfs node > > path, I will use > > your approach. > > > > Let me know your comments or if this is still not clear. > > > [Abhinav] We also might not be using the brightness value "as-it-is". > > We will potentially scale it up/down based on some requirements. > > If we do not have our own sysfs alias for this, how do we account for > providing this interface for our chipset specific backlight dependent > feature. > > Can you please comment on this? >
What kind of requirements would this be and what do you mean with scale it up/down? As the current implementation is proposed any magic added on top would work for this panel driver and wouldn't be available for any other panel, which doesn't sounds optimal. Regards, Bjorn _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
