# Re: \[PATCH 12/15\] auxdisplay: ht16k33: Introduce backlight\_get\_brightness()

- From: Stephen Kitt \<hidden\>
- Date: 2023-03-19 16:10:31 
- List: linuxppc-dev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linuxppc-dev/2023/03/2139303
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2023/01/2058457/t.md

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Hi,

On Mon, 09 Jan 2023 11:12:02 +0100, Robin van der Gracht [ref]
wrote:
> On 2023-01-08 10:29, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 07, 2023 at 10:02:38PM +0100, Miguel Ojeda wrote:  
> >> On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 7:26 PM Sam Ravnborg via B4 Submission Endpoint
> >> [ref] wrote:  
> >> >
> >> > Introduce backlight_get_brightness() to simplify logic
> >> > and avoid direct access to backlight properties.  
> >> 
> >> Note: Stephen sent this one too a while ago (with some more details in
> >> the commit message, which is always nice); and then he sent yesterday
> >> v2 [1] (to mention the functional change with `BL_CORE_SUSPENDED`
> >> [2]).  
> > Thanks for the pointers. I will try to move forward with Stephen's
> > patches.  
> >> 
> >> Anyway, if it goes via drm-misc, feel free to have my:
> >> 
> >>     Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda [ref]
> >> 
> >> Though it would be nice to have Robin test the change.  
> > 
> > Robin - can I get your ack to apply Stephen's original v2 patch to
> > drm-misc?  
> 
> done! see: 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0b16391f997e6ed005a326e4e48f2033@protonic.nl/

As far as I can tell, this never got applied to drm-misc, and I don’t see it
anywhere else. I guess it slipped through the cracks ;-)

Regards,

Stephen
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