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Now that we've added support to i915 for controlling panel backlights that need PWM to be enabled/disabled, let's finalize this and add support for controlling brightness levels via PWM as well. This should hopefully put us towards the path of supporting _ALL_ backlights via VESA's DPCD interface which would allow us to finally start trusting the DPCD again. Note however that we still don't enable using this by default on i915 when it's not needed, primarily because I haven't yet had a chance to confirm if it's safe to do this on the one machine in Intel's CI that had an issue with this: samus-fi-bdw. I have done basic testing of this on other machines though, by manually patching i915 to force it into PWM-only mode on some of my laptops. v2: * Correct documentation (thanks Doug!) * Get rid of backlight caps Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: Rajeev Nandan <rajeevny@codeaurora.org> Cc: Satadru Pramanik <satadru@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20211105183342.130810-5-lyude@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.