Re: [kernel/f21] Make sure acpi brightness_switch is disabled (like forever in Fedora)

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On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> On 07/28/2014 07:04 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> commit e6fe382d1d53d4cdf9b544729dc823d4eab0217c
>> Author: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Date:   Mon Jul 28 13:03:01 2014 -0400
>>
>>     Make sure acpi brightness_switch is disabled (like forever in Fedora)
>>
>>     Upstream reverted the change to turn the ACPI brightness_switch_enabled
>>     parameter off by default.  Revert the revert so we go back to the state
>>     Fedora has traditionally been in.
>
> Ack, I was planning on doing this myself but you beat me to it, thanks for
> taking care of this.
>
> Note that 3.17 will have this patch:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm.git/commit/?h=linux-next&id=8ab58e8e7e097bae5fe39cbc67eb93a91f7134b7
>
> Which fixes the 2 steps being taken for one keypress problem while
> keeping the acpi brightness_switch behavior enabled, so that people who
> have an acpi-video controlled backlight and a userspace which does not
> do backlight control (e.g. windowmaker).
>
> So for 3.17 we should IMHO drop the revert-revert and stick with
> upstream behavior.

OK.

> Alternatively we could apply that patch now instead of the revert-revert.

I think we'll stick with the solution we know for 3.16 and leave 3.17
to work out any issues with the new approach.

Thanks.

josh
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