Re: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: video: Add Toshiba Satellite/Portege Z830 quirk

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Hi,

On 9/1/22 16:15, Arvid Norlander wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2022-09-01 12:42, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>
>> Great, thank you so much for testing this!
>>
>> Is it ok if I add a:
>>
>> Tested-by: Arvid Norlander <lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> to the 2 patches for fixing this to give you credit for your testing ?
> 
> Yes, of course. As a newcommer it is hard to learn and remember all these
> little rules you have in kernel development. It is quite different from the
> forge-based workflow I'm used to.

No worries, I think you are doing great. Actually I could just have
added your Tested-by tags if I wanted too. Only the Signed-off-by tag
is one which you must explicitly give.

But asking seemed like the polite thing to do :)

>>> I'm not set up to test hibernation (using swap file on btrfs). Nor do I
>>> know if it even works on this laptop. It has some sort of auto hibernate
>>> feature in BIOS called Intel Rapid Start. It supposedly auto transitions to
>>> hibernation after being asleep for a while. I have not looked into if this
>>> is supported on Linux, and what setup would be required to support it in
>>> that case.
>>
>> Regular suspend/resume testing is what I was looking for. On restore
>> from hibernation the backlight is already on when restoring the state so
>> I don't expect any problems there.  And as you indicate getting hibernation
>> to work is tricky in general, IMHO there is no need to go through all
>> the trouble necessary to (maybe) get that to work.
> 
> Hm, I have not found it tricky when I have had swap partitions. At least on
> my Thinkpads as long as I avoid nvidia drivers.

As long as you have large enough swap partitions, yes. Sometimes figuring out
what large enough is is tricky though. Anyway we are getting offtopic.

Regards,

Hans




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