backlight: add backlight type

There may be multiple ways of controlling the backlight on a given
machine.  Allow drivers to expose the type of interface they are
providing, making it possible for userspace to make appropriate policy
decisions.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Cc: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Matthew Garrett 2011-03-22 16:30:21 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent ccd7510fd8
commit bb7ca747f8
59 changed files with 111 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ static int appledisplay_probe(struct usb_interface *iface,
snprintf(bl_name, sizeof(bl_name), "appledisplay%d",
atomic_inc_return(&count_displays) - 1);
memset(&props, 0, sizeof(struct backlight_properties));
props.type = BACKLIGHT_RAW;
props.max_brightness = 0xff;
pdata->bd = backlight_device_register(bl_name, NULL, pdata,
&appledisplay_bl_data, &props);