This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPI: video: Add backlight=native DMI quirk for Apple iMac11,3
to the 6.1-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-add-backlight-native-dmi-quirk-for-apple-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 9e79fc605888833bc092d69209adbced5bdcd207
Author: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed May 17 11:23:58 2023 +0200
ACPI: video: Add backlight=native DMI quirk for Apple iMac11,3
[ Upstream commit 48436f2e9834b46b47b038b605c8142a1c07bc85 ]
Linux defaults to picking the non-working ACPI video backlight interface
on the Apple iMac11,3 .
Add a DMI quirk to pick the working native radeon_bl0 interface instead.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
index b6d429a2bcb62..a6f50d4d61143 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
@@ -468,6 +468,14 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_detect_dmi_table[] = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "82BK"),
},
},
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ /* Apple iMac11,3 */
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Apple Inc."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "iMac11,3"),
+ },
+ },
{
/* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217249 */
.callback = video_detect_force_native,
