[PATCH v4] pwm-backlight: Avoid backlight flicker when probed from DT

Heiko Stuebner heiko at sntech.de
Tue Nov 10 06:18:10 PST 2015


Hi Philipp,

Am Montag, 2. November 2015, 17:55:56 schrieb Philipp Zabel:
> If the driver is probed from the device tree, and there is a phandle
> property set on it, and the enable GPIO is already configured as output,
> and the backlight is currently disabled, keep it disabled.
> If all these conditions are met, assume there will be some other driver
> that can enable the backlight at the appropriate time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel at pengutronix.de>
> Reviewed-by: Christian Gmeiner <christian.gmeiner at gmail.com>

this patch improves the white screen when booting a veyron chromebook
a lot. I still see a small white flash, but that can probably come from
the WIP edp driver.

Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko at sntech.de>



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