Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i915/opregion: ignore firmware requests for backlight change

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On 07/07/2014 09:01 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:43:51 PM Aaron Lu wrote:
>> Some Thinkpad laptops' firmware will initiate a backlight level change
>> request through operation region on the events of AC plug/unplug, but
>> since we are not using firmware's interface to do the backlight setting
>> on these affected laptops, we do not want the firmware to use some
>> arbitrary value from its ASL variable to set the backlight level on
>> AC plug/unplug either.
>>
>> Buglink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76491
>> Buglink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77091
>> Reported-and-tested-by: Igor Gnatenko <i.gnatenko.brain@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reported-and-tested-by: Anton Gubarkov <anton.gubarkov@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> v2: add a debug message when ignoring opregion request as suggested by
>>     Jani Nikula.
>>
>>  drivers/acpi/video.c                  | 3 ++-
>>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c | 9 +++++++++
>>  include/acpi/video.h                  | 2 ++
>>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
>> index fb9ffe9adc64..cf99d6d2d491 100644
>> --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
>> +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
>> @@ -241,13 +241,14 @@ static bool acpi_video_use_native_backlight(void)
>>  		return use_native_backlight_dmi;
>>  }
>>  
>> -static bool acpi_video_verify_backlight_support(void)
>> +bool acpi_video_verify_backlight_support(void)
>>  {
>>  	if (acpi_osi_is_win8() && acpi_video_use_native_backlight() &&
>>  	    backlight_device_registered(BACKLIGHT_RAW))
>>  		return false;
>>  	return acpi_video_backlight_support();
>>  }
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(acpi_video_verify_backlight_support);
> 
> Is there any reason for this not to be EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()?

No particular reason, just follow what is used for other exported
functions in this file. Will change this to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL.

> 
>>  /* backlight device sysfs support */
>>  static int acpi_video_get_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd)
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
>> index 2e2c71fcc9ed..4f6b53998d79 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_opregion.c
>> @@ -403,6 +403,15 @@ static u32 asle_set_backlight(struct drm_device *dev, u32 bclp)
>>  
>>  	DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("bclp = 0x%08x\n", bclp);
>>  
>> +	/*
>> +	 * If the acpi_video interface is not supposed to be used, don't
>> +	 * bother processing backlight level change requests from firmware.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (!acpi_video_verify_backlight_support()) {
>> +		DRM_DEBUG_KMS("opregion backlight request ignored\n");
>> +		return 0;
>> +	}
>> +
>>  	if (!(bclp & ASLE_BCLP_VALID))
>>  		return ASLC_BACKLIGHT_FAILED;
>>  
>> diff --git a/include/acpi/video.h b/include/acpi/video.h
>> index ea4c7bbded4d..92f8c4bffefb 100644
>> --- a/include/acpi/video.h
>> +++ b/include/acpi/video.h
>> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ extern void acpi_video_unregister(void);
>>  extern void acpi_video_unregister_backlight(void);
>>  extern int acpi_video_get_edid(struct acpi_device *device, int type,
>>  			       int device_id, void **edid);
>> +extern bool acpi_video_verify_backlight_support(void);
>>  #else
>>  static inline int acpi_video_register(void) { return 0; }
>>  static inline void acpi_video_unregister(void) { return; }
>> @@ -31,6 +32,7 @@ static inline int acpi_video_get_edid(struct acpi_device *device, int type,
>>  {
>>  	return -ENODEV;
>>  }
>> +static bool acpi_video_verify_backlight_support() { return false; }
> 
> And for this not to be static inline?

Will add inline.

Thanks for the review.

-Aaron

> 
>>  #endif
>>  
>>  #endif
>>
> 
> Rafael
> 

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