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Diffstat (limited to 'include/acpi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/acpi/video.h | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/acpi/video.h b/include/acpi/video.h index 4230392b5b0b..3d538d4178ab 100644 --- a/include/acpi/video.h +++ b/include/acpi/video.h @@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ static inline enum acpi_backlight_type acpi_video_get_backlight_type(void) return __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(false, NULL); } +/* + * This function MUST only be called by GPU drivers to check if the driver + * should register a backlight class device. This function not only checks + * if a GPU native backlight device should be registered it *also* tells + * the ACPI video-detect code that native GPU backlight control is available. + * Therefor calling this from any place other then the GPU driver is wrong! + * To check if GPU native backlight control is used in other places instead use: + * if (acpi_video_get_backlight_type() == acpi_backlight_native) { ... } + */ static inline bool acpi_video_backlight_use_native(void) { return __acpi_video_get_backlight_type(true, NULL) == acpi_backlight_native; |