[PATCH 0/2] Fixes for pmac32_defconfig after fb.h removal from backlight.h

Madhavan Srinivasan maddy at linux.ibm.com
Wed Nov 5 14:50:39 AEDT 2025



On 11/4/25 4:59 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Le 26/09/2025 à 01:46, Nathan Chancellor a écrit :
>> Commit 9f218f9bb9d2 ("backlight: Do not include <linux/fb.h> in header
>> file") exposed some necessary includes that were missing from a few
>> powerpc drivers, breaking the build. This series resolves them.
>>
>> This should go via the backlight tree, which includes 9f218f9bb9d2, but
>> I have included the PowerPC folks for visibility.
> 
> What is the status of this fixing series ? I see a couple of similar redundant patchs (see below) roaming around, which make me wonder if this series has been properly processed in the backlight tree.
> 

Yes, i will pull this as part of the powerpc tree.

Maddy
(sorry for the delay)


> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/cover/20251029150940.2523328-1-thierry.reding@gmail.com/
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/cover/20251027140646.227025-1-tzimmermann@suse.de/
> 
> Christophe
> 
>>
>> ---
>> Nathan Chancellor (2):
>>        powerpc/powermac: Include linux/of.h in backlight.c
>>        macintosh/via-pmu-backlight: Include linux/of.h and uapi/linux/fb.h
>>
>>   arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/backlight.c | 1 +
>>   drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c       | 2 ++
>>   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+)
>> ---
>> base-commit: 9f218f9bb9d274b9d5d48a4c95e1b199141fc1f2
>> change-id: 20250925-ppc-fixes-for-backlight-fb-h-removal-2b6a87cced02
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -- 
>> Nathan Chancellor <nathan at kernel.org>
>>
> 



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