Re: [PATCH v1] backlight: apple_bl: Convert to a platform driver

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 5:40 PM Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 Mar 2026, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> > On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 10:57 AM Daniel Thompson <danielt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2026 at 12:50:11PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > >
> > > > In all cases in which a struct acpi_driver is used for binding a driver
> > > > to an ACPI device object, a corresponding platform device is created by
> > > > the ACPI core and that device is regarded as a proper representation of
> > > > underlying hardware.  Accordingly, a struct platform_driver should be
> > > > used by driver code to bind to that device.  There are multiple reasons
> > > > why drivers should not bind directly to ACPI device objects [1].
> > > >
> > > > Overall, it is better to bind drivers to platform devices than to their
> > > > ACPI companions, so convert the Apple Backlight ACPI driver to a
> > > > platform one.
> > > >
> > > > While this is not expected to alter functionality, it changes sysfs
> > > > layout and so it will be visible to user space.
> > > >
> > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2396510.ElGaqSPkdT@rafael.j.wysocki/ [1]
> > > > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Unless anyone has any objections or concerns (in which case please let
> > me know), I'm going to queue up this one for 7.1.
>
> Why would you queue-up a Backlight patch?

Because I care about this change and it's mostly about ACPI.

> I'd rather this goes in via the Backlight tree.

Sure, no problem with that.