On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 12:42 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > v5: > > 1 Introduce video.use_native_backlight module parameter and set its > > value to false by default as suggested by Rafael. For Win8 systems > > which have broken ACPI video backlight control, the parameter can be > > set to 1 in kernel cmdline to skip registering ACPI video's backlight > > interface. Due to this change, the acpi_video_verify_backlight_support > > is moved from video_detect.c to video.c - patch 3/4; > > That's a fairly untenable position for distro kernels to be in. They > now have to ask every user that reports an issue with the backlight to > try setting that option on the command line. While I appreciate the > setting breaks things for some people, doesn't the Win8 issue impact > far more people? Shouldn't it be defaulted to true? > > If nothing else, can you add a config option for the default so > distros can use that to decide which way to default it and then work > on fixing the remaining users that have troubles? > > josh I think more better to use this unregister as default and give option to disable it. -- Igor Gnatenko Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Linux 3.11.4-301.fc20.x86_64 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
