On Thursday, May 01, 2014 12:24:39 PM Hans de Goede wrote: > Hi, > > On 04/30/2014 09:56 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 03:48:46 PM Hans de Goede wrote: > >> When the windows8 related backlight problems became evident, 2 approaches > >> were follow in paralellel, one was to stop claiming to be windows 8 / 2012, > >> the other was to tell acpi_video to stop registering a backlight driver. > >> > >> I've read all the threads and it seems that which approach ended up being > >> applied to which model laptop was never really a concious decision (AFAIK). > >> > >> So lets move all the models which are only on the win8 blacklist because of > >> brightness issues to the use_native_backlight list, which is the smaller > >> hammer to use to solve the backlight issues. > >> > >> Note: this is not tested on any of the affected models, this just seems like > >> the sensible thing to do. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Since commit 170269a9d3c0 (ACPI / video: Default to using native backlight > > control on Windows 8 systems) in linux-next is effectively removing the black > > list from video.c, I guess what you really would like to do would be to drop > > the items from blacklist.c. If so, please submit a patch to remove them on > > top of commit 170269a9d3c0. > > Right, the RFC was mostly for discussing what to do in case commit 170269a9d3c0 > does not work out well and ends up being reverted (as this was tried before and > got reverted pretty quickly). > > I'll send a patch just removing all the entries for -next for now, and I'll try > to remember that we need a patch like this RFC if we end up reverting. OK, thanks! -- I speak only for myself. Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
