Hi, On 11/5/22 15:52, Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi Rafael, Matthew, > > Here is a second attempt at always registering only a single > /sys/class/backlight device per panel. > > This first round of testing has shown that native works well even on > systems so old that the don't have acpi_video backlight control support. > > This patch series makes native be preferred over vendor, which should > avoid the problems seen with the 6.1 changes before the fixes. > > ATM there is one known model where this will cause a regression, > the Sony Vaio PCG-FRV3 from 2003. I plan to add a DMI quirk for that > in the next version of this series, but I'm waiting for some more > testing (to check that the vendor interface does actually work) first. > > I will also do another blogpost, focussing on asking users to see > if they have a laptop which provides a combination of vendor + native > backlight interfaces, which may be impacted by this series. This is > the main reason why this is a RFC for now. The blogpost requesting testing of laptops with a combination of vendor + native backlight interfaces can be found here: https://hansdegoede.dreamwidth.org/27024.html Regards, Hans
