drm/i915: Register the backlight device after the modeset init
Currently we register the backlight device as soon as we register the connector. That means we can get backlight requests from userspace already before reading out the current modeset hardware state. That means we don't yet know the current crtc->encoder->connector mapping, which causes problems for VLV/CHV which need to know the current pipe in order to figure out which BLC registers to poke. Currently we just ignore such requests fairly deep in the backlight code which means the backlight device brightness property will get out of sync with our backlight.level and the actual hardware state. Fix the problem by delaying the backlight device registration until the entire modeset init has been performed. And we also move the backlight unregisteration to happen as the first thing during the modeset cleanup so that we also won't be bothered with userspace backlight requested during teardown. This is a real world problem on machines using systemd, because systemd, for some reason, wants to restore the backlight to the level it used last time. And that happens as soon as it sees the backlight device appearing in the system. Sometimes the userspace access makes it through before the modeset init, sometimes not. v2: Do not lie to the user in the debug prints (Jani) Include connector name in the prints (Jani) Fix a typo in the commit message (Jani) Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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