bd->props.brightness doesn't reflect the actual backlight level.

Always invoke backlight_update_status when users want to change
the backlight.

For setups where brightness change is an expensive operation,
this could be done in the driver rather than the core.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12249

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
index 9593fdc042f..a9c013bb9f2 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
@@ -131,10 +131,8 @@ static ssize_t backlight_store_brightness(struct device *dev,
                 else {
                         pr_debug("backlight: set brightness to %lu\n",
                                  brightness);
-                        if (bd->props.brightness != brightness) {
-                                bd->props.brightness = brightness;
-                                backlight_update_status(bd);
-                        }
+                        bd->props.brightness = brightness;
+                        backlight_update_status(bd);
                         rc = count;
                 }
         }