On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 04:37:32PM +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: > One possibly crazy idea I had was to replace backlight devices as we know > them > with LED devices (a LED driver IC shouldn't be supported by different APIs > depending on whether the LEDs it drives are used as a backlight or not), and > have the panel hook up with the associated LED device to expose backlight > operations through the CDF. Panels with a backlight controller tied to the > panel controller (control through DSI for instance) would implement the > backlight operations directly without instantiating a LED device. This still > leaves the question of the userspace backlight brightness API open.
I remember looking at that before but never actually got round to it, it seems like a sensible idea to me.
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