This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[PATCH v3] ACPI: video: Force backlight native for more TongFang devices
to the 6.0-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
acpi-video-force-backlight-native-for-more-tongfang-devices.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thu Oct 27 12:25:48 2022
From: Werner Sembach <wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 17:22:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH v3] ACPI: video: Force backlight native for more TongFang devices
To: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx, daniel@xxxxxxxx, airlied@xxxxxxxxxx, lenb@xxxxxxxxxx, rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx
Message-ID: <20221026152246.24990-1-wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Werner Sembach <wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 3dbc80a3e4c55c4a5b89ef207bed7b7de36157b4 upstream.
This commit is very different from the upstream commit! It fixes the same
issue by adding more quirks, rather then the general fix from the 6.1
kernel, because the general fix from the 6.1 kernel is part of a larger
refactoring of the backlight code which is not suitable for the stable
series.
As described in "ACPI: video: Drop NL5x?U, PF4NU1F and PF5?U??
acpi_backlight=native quirks" (10212754a0d2) the upstream commit "ACPI:
video: Make backlight class device registration a separate step (v2)"
(3dbc80a3e4c5) makes these quirks unnecessary. However as mentioned in this
bugtracker ticket https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215683#c17
the upstream fix is part of a larger patchset that is overall too complex
for stable.
The TongFang GKxNRxx, GMxNGxx, GMxZGxx, and GMxRGxx / TUXEDO
Stellaris/Polaris Gen 1-4, have the same problem as the Clevo NL5xRU and
NL5xNU / TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen1 and Gen2:
They have a working native and video interface for screen backlight.
However the default detection mechanism first registers the video interface
before unregistering it again and switching to the native interface during
boot. This results in a dangling SBIOS request for backlight change for
some reason, causing the backlight to switch to ~2% once per boot on the
first power cord connect or disconnect event. Setting the native interface
explicitly circumvents this buggy behaviour by avoiding the unregistering
process.
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Werner Sembach <wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 64 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
@@ -515,6 +515,70 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_
},
},
/*
+ * More Tongfang devices with the same issue as the Clevo NL5xRU and
+ * NL5xNU/TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen1 and Gen2. See the description above.
+ */
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "TongFang GKxNRxx",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "GKxNRxx"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "TongFang GKxNRxx",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "TUXEDO"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "POLARIS1501A1650TI"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "TongFang GKxNRxx",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "TUXEDO"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "POLARIS1501A2060"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "TongFang GKxNRxx",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "TUXEDO"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "POLARIS1701A1650TI"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "TongFang GKxNRxx",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "TUXEDO"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "POLARIS1701A2060"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "TongFang GMxNGxx",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "GMxNGxx"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "TongFang GMxZGxx",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "GMxZGxx"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "TongFang GMxRGxx",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "GMxRGxx"),
+ },
+ },
+ /*
* Desktops which falsely report a backlight and which our heuristics
* for this do not catch.
*/
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-6.0/acpi-video-force-backlight-native-for-more-tongfang-devices.patch
