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>
diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
index 4a3d52e..5ffc6dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/backlight.h
+++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@
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 @@
/* 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;