On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 06:05:27PM +0200, David Herrmann wrote: > From: Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@xxxxxxxxx> > > On some samsung laptops the brightness regulation works slightly different. > All SABI commands except for set_brightness work as expected. The behaviour > of set_brightness is as follows: > > - Setting a new brightness will only step one level toward the new brightness > level. For example, setting a level of 5 when the current level is 2 will > result in a brightness level of 3. > - A spurious KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP or KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN event is also generated > along with the change in brightness. > - Neither of the above two issues occur when changing from/to brightness level 0. > > This patch adds detection and a non-intrusive workaround for the above issues. > > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Hi > > This patch is originally from Jason Stubbs. See here: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/gregkh/patches.git;a=blob;f=platform-samsung_laptop-add-support-for-samsung-nc210-nc110.patch;hb=HEAD > > I just wanted to ask whether there is some work going on here? My laptop model > needs this fix and I reviewed and tested it and it works fine. It would be nice > to see this upstream. I have a different patch from Jason that should fix this properly, I'll send it to Matthew later today. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
