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

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Nov 19 13:18:25 UTC 2013


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-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.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-3.5.y-queue

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

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 4f8aa563103fe9d32a327114f2a913a70cd9ca19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques 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 0443a4f..4d2bbd8 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





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