linux/arch/powerpc
Richard Purdie 28ee086d5b backlight: Fix external uses of backlight internal semaphore
backlight_device->sem has a very specific use as documented in the
header file. The external users of this are using it for a different
reason, to serialise access to the update_status() method.

backlight users were supposed to implement their own internal
serialisation of update_status() if needed but everyone is doing
things differently and incorrectly. Therefore add a global mutex to
take care of serialisation for everyone, once and for all.

Locking for get_brightness remains optional since most users don't
need it.

Also update the lcd class in a similar way.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
2007-02-20 08:38:45 +00:00
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boot Merge branch '86xx' into for_paulus 2007-02-18 08:34:33 -06:00
configs Merge branch '85xx' into for_paulus 2007-02-17 16:32:46 -06:00
kernel backlight: Fix external uses of backlight internal semaphore 2007-02-20 08:38:45 +00:00
lib [POWERPC] Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate 2007-02-08 16:08:18 +11:00
math-emu [POWERPC] ppc math-emu needs -fno-builtin-fabs for math.c and fabs.c 2006-09-26 15:24:35 +10:00
mm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2007-02-19 13:29:02 -08:00
oprofile [POWERPC] cell: pm_rtas_activat_signals routine cleanup 2007-02-13 22:03:07 +01:00
platforms backlight: Fix external uses of backlight internal semaphore 2007-02-20 08:38:45 +00:00
sysdev [POWERPC] QE: clean up ucc_slow.c and ucc_fast.c 2007-02-17 16:12:54 -06:00
xmon [POWERPC] spufs: move prio to spu_context 2007-02-13 21:55:40 +01:00
.gitignore [POWERPC] Add files build to .gitignore 2006-12-04 20:41:29 +11:00
Kconfig [POWERPC] Add PMI driver for cell blade 2007-02-16 14:00:19 +11:00
Kconfig.debug [POWERPC] pasemi: UART udbg support 2007-02-07 14:03:22 +11:00
Makefile [POWERPC] Create a "wrapper" script and use it in arch/powerpc/boot 2006-09-28 14:30:02 +10:00