The Dell Latitude E6430 both with and without the optional NVidia dGPU has a bug in its ACPI tables which is causing Linux to assign the wrong ACPI fwnode / companion to the pci_device for the i915 iGPU. Specifically under the PCI root bridge there are these 2 ACPI Device()s : Scope (_SB.PCI0) { Device (GFX0) { Name (_ADR, 0x00020000) // _ADR: Address } ... Device (VID) { Name (_ADR, 0x00020000) // _ADR: Address ... Method (_DOS, 1, NotSerialized) // _DOS: Disable Output Switching { VDP8 = Arg0 VDP1 (One, VDP8) } Method (_DOD, 0, NotSerialized) // _DOD: Display Output Devices { ... } ... } } The non-functional GFX0 ACPI device is a problem, because this gets returned as ACPI companion-device by acpi_find_child_device() for the iGPU. This is a long standing problem and the i915 driver does use the ACPI companion for some things, but works fine without it. However since commit 63f534b8bad9 ("ACPI: PCI: Rework acpi_get_pci_dev()") acpi_get_pci_dev() relies on the physical-node pointer in the acpi_device and that is set on the wrong acpi_device because of the wrong acpi_find_child_device() return. This breaks the ACPI video code, leading to non working backlight control in some cases. Make find_child_checks() return a higher score for children which have pnp-ids set by various scan helpers like acpi_is_video_device(), so that it picks the right companion-device. An alternative approach would be to directly call acpi_is_video_device() from find_child_checks() but that would be somewhat computationally expensive given that acpi_find_child_device() iterates over all the PCI0 children every time it is called. Fixes: 63f534b8bad9 ("ACPI: PCI: Rework acpi_get_pci_dev()") Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/glue.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/glue.c b/drivers/acpi/glue.c index 204fe94c7e45..2055dfd7678b 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/glue.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/glue.c @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ static struct acpi_bus_type *acpi_get_bus_type(struct device *dev) } #define FIND_CHILD_MIN_SCORE 1 -#define FIND_CHILD_MAX_SCORE 2 +#define FIND_CHILD_MAX_SCORE 3 static int match_any(struct acpi_device *adev, void *not_used) { @@ -89,15 +89,25 @@ static bool acpi_dev_has_children(struct acpi_device *adev) static int find_child_checks(struct acpi_device *adev, bool check_children) { + int score = FIND_CHILD_MIN_SCORE; unsigned long long sta; acpi_status status; if (check_children && !acpi_dev_has_children(adev)) return -ENODEV; + /* + * For devices without a _STA method, prefer devices without a _HID + * (which conflicts with having an _ADR) but which have been matched + * in some other way, like e.g. by acpi_is_video_device() over devices + * with no ids at all. + */ + if (!adev->pnp.type.platform_id && adev->pnp.type.hardware_id) + score++; + status = acpi_evaluate_integer(adev->handle, "_STA", NULL, &sta); if (status == AE_NOT_FOUND) - return FIND_CHILD_MIN_SCORE; + return score; if (ACPI_FAILURE(status) || !(sta & ACPI_STA_DEVICE_ENABLED)) return -ENODEV; -- 2.39.0