[PATCH 2/2] macintosh/via-pmu-backlight: Include linux/of.h and uapi/linux/fb.h
Nathan Chancellor
nathan at kernel.org
Wed Nov 5 04:01:04 AEDT 2025
On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 01:43:26PM +0100, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 26.09.25 um 01:46 schrieb Nathan Chancellor:
> > After the recent removal of the fb.h include from backlight.h, which
> > transitively included of.h, there are several errors from
> > via-pmu-backlight.c (errors from bl_curve not being properly defined
> > omitted):
> >
> > drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c:22:20: error: 'FB_BACKLIGHT_LEVELS' undeclared here (not in a function)
> > 22 | static u8 bl_curve[FB_BACKLIGHT_LEVELS];
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c: In function 'pmu_backlight_get_level_brightness':
> > drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c:63:38: error: 'FB_BACKLIGHT_MAX' undeclared (first use in this function); did you mean 'BACKLIGHT_RAW'?
> > 63 | pmulevel = bl_curve[level] * FB_BACKLIGHT_MAX / MAX_PMU_LEVEL;
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > | BACKLIGHT_RAW
> > drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c: In function 'pmu_backlight_init':
> > drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c:144:17: error: implicit declaration of function 'of_machine_is_compatible' [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
> > 144 | of_machine_is_compatible("AAPL,3400/2400") ||
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > FB_BACKLIGHT_{LEVELS,MAX} are available from the userspace API fb.h so
> > just include that avoid dragging in the full fb.h header unnecessarily.
> > Include linux/of.h for of_machine_is_compatible().
> >
> > Fixes: 9f218f9bb9d2 ("backlight: Do not include <linux/fb.h> in header file")
> > Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
> > ---
> > drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c b/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c
> > index 26bd9ed5e664..f7b7853b3802 100644
> > --- a/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c
> > +++ b/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c
> > @@ -11,7 +11,9 @@
> > #include <asm/ptrace.h>
> > #include <linux/adb.h>
> > #include <linux/backlight.h>
> > +#include <linux/of.h>
> > #include <linux/pmu.h>
> > +#include <uapi/linux/fb.h>
>
> Should this not be <linux/fb.h> ?
It could be but as I mention above, this file only needs the UAPI
FB_BACKLIGHT_LEVELS and FB_BACKLIGHT_MAX constants so I did not really
feel like it was worth it to drag in the whole fb.h header.
> > #include <asm/backlight.h>
> > #define MAX_PMU_LEVEL 0xFF
> >
>
> --
> --
> Thomas Zimmermann
> Graphics Driver Developer
> SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH
> Frankenstr. 146, 90461 Nürnberg, Germany, www.suse.com
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>
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