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authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>2011-03-22 16:30:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-22 17:43:59 -0700
commitbb7ca747f8d6243b3943c5b133048652020f4a50 (patch)
treeb40e879a7b26e3763aea2af2d4dd9079483de11e /include
parentccd7510fd8dea5b4b2af87fb2aef2ebd6b23b76b (diff)
downloadlinux-bb7ca747f8d6243b3943c5b133048652020f4a50.tar.bz2
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/backlight.h9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
index 4a3d52e545e1..5ffc6dda4675 100644
--- a/include/linux/backlight.h
+++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ enum backlight_update_reason {
BACKLIGHT_UPDATE_SYSFS,
};
+enum backlight_type {
+ BACKLIGHT_RAW = 1,
+ BACKLIGHT_PLATFORM,
+ BACKLIGHT_FIRMWARE,
+ BACKLIGHT_TYPE_MAX,
+};
+
struct backlight_device;
struct fb_info;
@@ -62,6 +69,8 @@ struct backlight_properties {
/* FB Blanking active? (values as for power) */
/* Due to be removed, please use (state & BL_CORE_FBBLANK) */
int fb_blank;
+ /* Backlight type */
+ enum backlight_type type;
/* Flags used to signal drivers of state changes */
/* Upper 4 bits are reserved for driver internal use */
unsigned int state;