On 27-08-20, 14:20, Yue Hu wrote: > Currenly, drivers/video/backlight does not call > thermal_of_cooling_device_register() > to register thermal cooling device. The issue happened in msm-4.19 kernel for > QCOM/Android platform. Backlight in msm-4.19 kernel will register thermal > cooling > device as below: > > +static int bd_cdev_get_max_brightness(struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev, > + unsigned long *state) > +{ > + struct backlight_device *bd = (struct backlight_device *)cdev->devdata; > + > + *state = bd->props.max_brightness; > + > + return 0; > +} > > > +static struct thermal_cooling_device_ops bd_cdev_ops = { > + .get_max_state = bd_cdev_get_max_brightness, > > +static void backlight_cdev_register(struct device *parent, > + struct backlight_device *bd) > +{ > + if (of_find_property(parent->of_node, "#cooling-cells", NULL)) { > + bd->cdev = thermal_of_cooling_device_register(parent->of_node, > + (char *)dev_name(&bd->dev), bd, &bd_cdev_ops); > > And the bd->props.max_brightness is getting from video/backlight/qcom-wled.c. > Maybe > the driver should not assign 1024 to states/max_brightness. I'm not sure > about it. > So i consider to change memory allocation methord. That's the origin of the > patch.
Thanks for the details. So this is not about upstream tree, as a rule we aren't going to make changes here for any downstream tree. Now coming back to the downstream driver, I also don't see a point in returning bd->props.max_brightness as the max number of states there. Maybe have 10 states, each occupying bd->props.max_brightness/10 brightness and so you will end up with 10 states only. But yeah, whatever downstream decides on that. -- viresh