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backlight: apple_bl: Convert to a platform driver
authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:50:11 +0000 (12:50 +0100)
committerLee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:48:10 +0000 (11:48 +0100)
commit04d8f3fd0b52ead84eb722989afa094b8fca9129
tree540139e8e879ad39aa3da9503fc3fb2e258b3f77
parent797cc011ae02bda26f93d25a4442d7a1a77d84df
backlight: apple_bl: Convert to a platform driver

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/
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson (RISCstar) <danielt@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/5084777.GXAFRqVoOG@rafael.j.wysocki
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
drivers/video/backlight/apple_bl.c