Thread (23 messages) 23 messages, 3 authors, 2013-10-23

Re: [PATCH 1/9] backlight: atmel-pwm-bl: fix reported brightness

From: Jingoo Han <hidden>
Date: 2013-10-23 01:21:15
Also in: lkml, stable

On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 2:27 AM, Johan Hovold wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The driver supports 16-bit brightness values, but the value returned
from get_brightness was truncated to eight bits.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <redacted>
---
 drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c
index 66885fb..8aac273 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static int atmel_pwm_bl_set_intensity(struct backlight_device *bd)
 static int atmel_pwm_bl_get_intensity(struct backlight_device *bd)
 {
 	struct atmel_pwm_bl *pwmbl = bl_get_data(bd);
-	u8 intensity;
+	u32 intensity;

 	if (pwmbl->pdata->pwm_active_low) {
 		intensity = pwm_channel_readl(&pwmbl->pwmc, PWM_CDTY) -
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static int atmel_pwm_bl_get_intensity(struct backlight_device *bd)
 			pwm_channel_readl(&pwmbl->pwmc, PWM_CDTY);
 	}

-	return intensity;
+	return (u16)intensity;
However, atmel_pwm_bl_get_intensity() should return 'int',
instead of 'u16'. Also, pwm_channel_readl() returns 'u32'.

Then, how about the following?
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/atmel-pwm-bl.c
@@ -70,17 +70,17 @@ static int atmel_pwm_bl_set_intensity(struct backlight_device *bd)
 static int atmel_pwm_bl_get_intensity(struct backlight_device *bd)
 {
	struct atmel_pwm_bl *pwmbl = bl_get_data(bd);
-	u8 intensity;
+	u16 intensity;

	if (pwmbl->pdata->pwm_active_low) {
-		intensity = pwm_channel_readl(&pwmbl->pwmc, PWM_CDTY) -
+		intensity = (u16) pwm_channel_readl(&pwmbl->pwmc, PWM_CDTY) -
			pwmbl->pdata->pwm_duty_min;
	} else {
-		intensity = pwmbl->pdata->pwm_duty_max -
+		intensity = (u16) pwmbl->pdata->pwm_duty_max -
			pwm_channel_readl(&pwmbl->pwmc, PWM_CDTY);
	}

-	return intensity;
+	return (int)intensity;
 }

Best regards,
Jingoo Han
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