Re: [PATCH] ACPI / video: only register backlight for LCD device

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On Wednesday, October 28, 2015 03:09:23 PM Aaron Lu wrote:
> The firmware of ESPRIMO Mobile M9410 has two video output devices that
> have _BCM control method, one is the type of "External Digital Monitor"
> while the other is the type of "Internal/Integrated Digital Flat Panel".
> Only the 2nd video output device's _BCM control method works, but
> since we have created two and the 1st one got picked up by user space,
> the backlight functionality is broken. To solve this problem, only
> register backlight interface for "Internal/Integrated Digital Flat Panel"
> type video output device on this laptop.
> 
> Another problem of this laptop is that the IDs listed by the _DOD method
> doesn't have bit 31 set, which means it doesn't follow the format
> specified by ACPI spec. But the value indicates that it actually follows
> that format so I've added a DMI quirk and a module level parameter to
> force use the device_id_scheme so that we can get the video output
> device's type to do the decision if we should register backlight
> interface.
> 
> Buglink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104121
> Suggested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Scharl <zahlsum-kernelbugs@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks!

Rafael

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