From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:01:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: backlight: Avoid unecessary driver callbacks
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~298^2~1
X-Git-Url: http://git.cascardo.info/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=515524537999c1f107a0a7c7f74c034979c2c86d;p=cascardo%2Flinux.git

backlight: Avoid unecessary driver callbacks

Avoid driver callbacks when the brightness hasn't changed since
they're not necessary.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
---

diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
index 4840fe217e4d..39394757679c 100644
--- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
+++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c
@@ -94,8 +94,10 @@ static ssize_t backlight_store_power(struct device *dev,
 	mutex_lock(&bd->ops_lock);
 	if (bd->ops) {
 		pr_debug("backlight: set power to %d\n", power);
-		bd->props.power = power;
-		backlight_update_status(bd);
+		if (bd->props.power != power) {
+			bd->props.power = power;
+			backlight_update_status(bd);
+		}
 		rc = count;
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&bd->ops_lock);
@@ -132,8 +134,10 @@ static ssize_t backlight_store_brightness(struct device *dev,
 		else {
 			pr_debug("backlight: set brightness to %d\n",
 				 brightness);
-			bd->props.brightness = brightness;
-			backlight_update_status(bd);
+			if (bd->props.brightness != brightness) {
+				bd->props.brightness = brightness;
+				backlight_update_status(bd);
+			}
 			rc = count;
 		}
 	}