Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] ACPI: video: Fix missing acpi_video# devices on some systems

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Hi Hans,

On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 1:03 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Here is my v2 of this series, changes in v2:
>
> - Add Mario's Reviewed-by to the series
> - Fix typo in commit-message for 5/6
> - Drop no longer used video_detect_force_none() in 6/6
>
> This patch series consists of 2 parts:
>
> 1. Fix missing acpi_video# devices on some systems, currently in kernels
>    >= 6.1.5 and >= 6.2.0 acpi_video# backlight class devices will only
>    get registered (by default) when a GPU driver asks for this by calling
>    acpi_video_register_backlight(). This is causing backlight control to
>    be missing on some systems.
>
>    Patches 1-4 fix this and ideally these should be send to Linus for
>    an upcoming 6.3-rc# release.

So I've applied these for now.

Note that I generally hate to do things like this so late in the
cycle, so this generally is an exception AFAIAC.

> 2. Now that the dust has settled a bit on the backlight refactor we can
>    do some further cleanups. This is done in patches 5 + 6. Note that
>    patch 5 depends on patch 2.

And I will queue up these 2 for 6.4 later.

Thanks!



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