# \[v7 2/5\] drm/panel-simple: Support DP AUX backlight

- From: Rajeev Nandan \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-06-19 10:41:39 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2021/06/1419931
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/dri-devel/2021/06/1419929/t.md

```text
If there is no backlight specified in the device tree and the panel
has access to the DP AUX channel then create a DP AUX backlight if
supported by the panel.

Signed-off-by: Rajeev Nandan <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
---

(no changes since v5)

This patch depends on the previous patch (2/5) of this series.

Changes in v4:
- New

Changes in v5:
- Address review comments and move backlight functions to drm_panel.c (Douglas)
- Create and register DP AUX backlight if there is no backlight specified in the
  device tree and panel has the DP AUX channel. (Douglas)
- The new drm_panel_dp_aux_backlight() will do the drm_edp_backlight_supported() check.

 drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c
index df6fbd1..26555ec 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/panel/panel-simple.c
@@ -800,6 +800,12 @@ static int panel_simple_probe(struct device *dev, const struct panel_desc *desc,
 	if (err)
 		goto disable_pm_runtime;
 
+	if (!panel->base.backlight && panel->aux) {
+		err = drm_panel_dp_aux_backlight(&panel->base, panel->aux);
+		if (err)
+			goto disable_pm_runtime;
+	}
+
 	drm_panel_add(&panel->base);
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.7.4

```