Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] thinkpad-acpi: fix handle locate for video and query of _BCL

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On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Aaron Lu wrote:
> The tpacpi_acpi_handle_locate function makes use of acpi_get_devices to
> locate handle for ACPI video by HID, the problem is, ACPI video node
> doesn't really have HID defined(i.e. no _HID control method is defined
> for video device), so.. that function would fail. This can be solved by
> enhancing the callback function for acpi_get_devices, where we can use
> acpi_device_hid function to check if the ACPI node corresponds to a
> video controller.
> 
> In addition to that, the _BCL control method only exists under a video
> output device node, not a video controller device node. So to evaluate
> _BCL, we need the handle of a video output device node, which is child
> of the located video controller node from tpacpi_acpi_handle_locate.
> 
> The two fix are necessary for some Thinkpad models to emit notification
> on backlight hotkey press as a result of evaluation of _BCL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Igor Gnatenko <i.gnatenko.brain@xxxxxxxxx>

Some testing on a *60 (T60,X60...) would also be best, I cannot test this on
my T43.

Anyway, the code itself looks fine, so:

Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>

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