Re: [PATCH] backlight: apple_bl: Use acpi_video_get_backlight_type()

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On 3/7/23 13:27, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 01:05:40PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> On some MacBooks both the apple_bl and the apple-gmux backlight drivers
>> may be able to export a /sys/class/backlight device.
>>
>> To avoid having 2 backlight devices for one LCD panel until now
>> the apple-gmux driver has been calling apple_bl_unregister() to move
>> the apple_bl backlight device out of the way when it loads.
>>
>> Similar problems exist on other x86 laptops and all backlight drivers
>> which may be used on x86 laptops have moved to using
>> acpi_video_get_backlight_type() to determine whether they should load
>> or not.
>>
>> Switch apple_bl to this model too, so that it is consistent with all
>> the other x86 backlight drivers.
>>
>> Besides code-simplification and consistency this has 2 other benefits:
>>
>> 1) It removes a race during boot where userspace will briefly see
>>    an apple_bl backlight and then have it disappear again, leading to e.g.:
>>    https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269920
>>
>> 2) This allows user to switch between the drivers by passing
>>    acpi_backlight=apple_gmux or acpi_backlight=vendor on the kernel
>>    commandline.
> 
> ...
> 
>> +	depends on ACPI_VIDEO=n || ACPI_VIDEO
> 
> I'm wondering if "imply ACPI_VIDEO" (i.o.w. weak dependency) is what suitable
> here.

No, because then if apple_bl is builtin and acpi_video is a module
we will get unresolved dependencies.

The quoted bit of Kconfig magic is exactly to avoid that scenario,
other combinations are fine (due to stubs in acpi/video.h when
disabled).

Regards,

Hans