On Friday, January 22, 2016 02:51:39 PM Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 22-01-16 14:44, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Friday, January 22, 2016 11:41:05 AM Hans de Goede wrote:
> >> The quirk to get "acpi_backlight=vendor" behavior by default on the
> >> Dell Inspiron 5737 was added before we started doing
> >> "acpi_backlight=native" by default on Win8 ready machines.
> >>
> >> Since we now avoid using acpi-video as backlight driver on these machines
> >> by default (using the native driver instead) we no longer need this quirk.
> >>
> >> Moreover the vendor driver does not work after a suspend/resume where
> >> as the native driver does.
> >>
> >> This reverts commit 08a56226d847 ("ACPI / video: Add Dell Inspiron 5737
> >> to the blacklist").
> >>
> >> BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111061
> >> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > OK, but I think we need to limit the range of "stable" kernels this is
> > going to go into.
> >
> > What's the least recent "stable" series one you'd like this to be applied to?
>
> 3.19 and later have this commit:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/acpi/video.c?id=fbc9fe1b4f222a7c575e3bd8e9defe59c6190a04
>
> And thus will use native backlight by default, so anything >= 3.19.
OK, applied.
Thanks,
Rafael
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