[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "backlight: atmel-pwm-bl: fix reported brightness" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    backlight: atmel-pwm-bl: fix reported brightness

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.14.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:09:38 -0800
Subject: backlight: atmel-pwm-bl: fix reported brightness

commit 185d91442550110db67a7dc794a32efcea455a36 upstream.

The driver supports 16-bit brightness values, but the value returned
from get_brightness was truncated to eight bits.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han at samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 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 de5e5e7..f1b85ac 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 intensity & 0xffff;
 }

 static int atmel_pwm_bl_init_pwm(struct atmel_pwm_bl *pwmbl)
--
1.8.3.2