This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
acpi/video_detect: blacklist samsung x360
to the 3.4-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_detect-blacklist-samsung-x360.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From bd38add8120c2f6915d2e117b697843bd23ce573 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:32:04 +0200
Subject: acpi/video_detect: blacklist samsung x360
From: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 084940d5b101e9ca91a689eb5048151b14076839 upstream.
On Samsung X360, the BIOS will set a flag (VDRV) if the generic
ACPI backlight device is used. This flag will definitively break
the backlight interface (even the vendor interface) untill next
reboot. It's why we should prevent video.ko from being used here
and we can't rely on a later call to acpi_video_unregister().
Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
@@ -132,6 +132,33 @@ find_video(acpi_handle handle, u32 lvl,
return AE_OK;
}
+/* Force to use vendor driver when the ACPI device is known to be
+ * buggy */
+static int video_detect_force_vendor(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
+{
+ acpi_video_support |= ACPI_VIDEO_BACKLIGHT_DMI_VENDOR;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static struct dmi_system_id video_detect_dmi_table[] = {
+ /* On Samsung X360, the BIOS will set a flag (VDRV) if generic
+ * ACPI backlight device is used. This flag will definitively break
+ * the backlight interface (even the vendor interface) untill next
+ * reboot. It's why we should prevent video.ko from being used here
+ * and we can't rely on a later call to acpi_video_unregister().
+ */
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_vendor,
+ .ident = "X360",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "X360"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "X360"),
+ },
+ },
+ { },
+};
+
/*
* Returns the video capabilities of a specific ACPI graphics device
*
@@ -164,6 +191,8 @@ long acpi_video_get_capabilities(acpi_ha
* ACPI_VIDEO_BACKLIGHT_DMI_VENDOR;
*}
*/
+
+ dmi_check_system(video_detect_dmi_table);
} else {
status = acpi_bus_get_device(graphics_handle, &tmp_dev);
if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/acpi-video_detect-blacklist-samsung-x360.patch
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