On Wed, 07 Apr 2021, Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 12:08:12PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: >> Change the backlight device names from intel_backlight to >> card%d-%s-backlight format, for example card0-eDP-1-backlight, to make >> them unique. Otherwise, registering multiple backlight devices with >> intel_backlight name will fail, regardless of whether they're two >> connectors in the same device or two different devices. >> >> Cc: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]> >> Closes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/2794 >> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]> >> >> --- >> >> Is the name "intel_backlight" part of the UABI? In theory the userspace >> should only look at the names and types available under >> /sys/class/backlight, not the exact names. > > Quick glance at some things suggest this might affect some > custom setups people have. > > There is an xorg.conf option in the intel ddx to force the > backlight device selection. But I didn't see any hardcoding > of the backlight device name, so unless the user has > configured that knob things should keep working I think. > > Also googling says systemd might have some backlight > name to service name magic going on. But I was too lazy > to actually read the code so don't know the details.
Thanks, I switched to using intel_backlight first, and falling back to unique names after that [1]. BR, Jani. [1] https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/89578/ -- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
