On 03/03/2015 09:11 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 03-03-15 09:26, Aaron Lu wrote:
>> On 03/03/2015 03:39 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> The native backlight behavior (so not registering both the acpi-video and the
>>> vendor backlight driver) can be useful on some non win8 machines too, allow
>>> the user to force this behavior by passing video.use_native_backlight=2
>>> on the kernel commandline.
>>
>> Just bikeshedding, what about doing it this way?
>>
>> In the acpi_video_use_native_backlight function:
>> 1 If user has set a cmdline option, use that(no matter if it is a win8
>> system or not);
>> 2 If the system is in a DMI table, use that(no matter if it is a win8
>> system or not);
>> 3 return true if this is a win8 system; false otherwise.
>>
>> Something like this:
>
> That works for me, and has the added advantage of not changing the
> cmdline syntax (but it does change the cmdline behavior ...).
Oh yes, I didn't consider this. Not sure how much impact this will have,
but I don't see an immediate problem with it, so let's see.
>
> So going either way is fine with me.
>
> Aaron's version is:
>
> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Thanks. Here is the full patch:
From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 10:24:58 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] acpi: video: Allow forcing native backlight on non win8
machines
The native backlight behavior (so not registering both the acpi-video
and the vendor backlight driver) can be useful on some non win8 machines
too, so change the behavior of the video.use_native_backlight=1 or 0
kernel cmdline option to be: if user has set video.use_native_backlight=1
or 0, use that no matter if it is a win8 system or not. Also, we will
put some known systems into the DMI table to make them either use native
backlight interface or not, so the use_native_backlight_dmi is used to
reflect that.
Original-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-offby: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/video.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index debd30917010..4cd0c8a4fd9d 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ module_param(allow_duplicates, bool, 0644);
*/
static int use_native_backlight_param = -1;
module_param_named(use_native_backlight, use_native_backlight_param, int, 0444);
-static bool use_native_backlight_dmi = true;
+static int use_native_backlight_dmi = -1;
static int register_count;
static struct mutex video_list_lock;
@@ -239,13 +239,14 @@ static bool acpi_video_use_native_backlight(void)
{
if (use_native_backlight_param != -1)
return use_native_backlight_param;
- else
+ else if (use_native_backlight_dmi != -1)
return use_native_backlight_dmi;
+ return acpi_osi_is_win8();
}
bool acpi_video_verify_backlight_support(void)
{
- if (acpi_osi_is_win8() && acpi_video_use_native_backlight() &&
+ if (acpi_video_use_native_backlight() &&
backlight_device_registered(BACKLIGHT_RAW))
return false;
return acpi_video_backlight_support();
@@ -414,7 +415,7 @@ static int __init video_set_bqc_offset(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
static int __init video_disable_native_backlight(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
{
- use_native_backlight_dmi = false;
+ use_native_backlight_dmi = 0;
return 0;
}
--
2.1.0
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