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    drm/i915/backlight: Do not bump min brightness to max on enable · 92714006
    Gareth Yu authored
    Historically the expectation was to set brightness to max on enable, if
    it was zero. However, the policy should be to preserve brightness across
    disable/enable, for example the userspace might want to dim the
    brightness before disable (e.g. on suspend) and gradually bring it back
    up after enable (e.g. on resume). If the brightness gets bumped to max
    at enable, this causes flicker as the userspace expects the brightness
    to have been preserved across disable/enable.
    
    For example:
    
    (suspend)
    [53949.248875] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_edp_backlight_off]
    [53949.452046] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_backlight_set_pwm_level] set backlight PWM = 0
    
    (wakeup)
    [53986.067356] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_edp_backlight_on]
    [53986.067367] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_backlight_enable] pipe A
    [53986.067476] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_backlight_set_pwm_level] set backlight PWM = 96000
    [53986.119766] backlight intel_backlight: PM: calling backlight_resume+0x0/0x7a @ 4916, parent: card0-eDP-1
    [53986.119781] backlight intel_backlight: PM: backlight_resume+0x0/0x7a returned 0 after 0 usecs
    [53986.220068] [drm:intel_backlight_device_update_status] updating intel_backlight, brightness=26321/96000
    [53986.220086] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm:intel_panel_actually_set_backlight] set backlight level = 27961
    
    Reduce the check to respecting the minimum brightness, and avoid bumping
    min brightness to max on enable.
    
    Note: It's possible there's still userspace out there that relies on the
    old behaviour. It would be unfortunate, but there's really only one way
    to find out.
    
    Cc: Tejas Upadhyay <tejaskumarx.surendrakumar.upadhyay@intel.com>
    Cc: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>
    Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGareth Yu <gareth.yu@intel.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
    [Jani: Rewrote the commit message.]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240321045311.2124111-1-gareth.yu@intel.com
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