This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ACPI / video: update the skip case for acpi_video_device_in_dod()
to the 3.18-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-update-the-skip-case-for-acpi_video_device_in_dod.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From b4df463678fb9c6dae9548dbb7545993779fd416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 16:01:29 +0800
Subject: ACPI / video: update the skip case for acpi_video_device_in_dod()
From: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
commit b4df463678fb9c6dae9548dbb7545993779fd416 upstream.
If the firmware has declared more than 8 video output devices, and the
one that control the internal panel's backlight is listed after the
first 8 output devices, the _DOD will not include it due to the current
i915 operation region implementation. As a result, we will not create a
backlight device for it while we should. Solve this problem by special
case the firmware that has 8+ output devices in that if we see such a
firmware, we do not test if the device is in _DOD list. The creation of
the backlight device will also enable the firmware to emit events on
backlight hotkey press when the acpi_osi= cmdline option is specified on
those affected ASUS laptops.
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70241
Reported-and-tested-by: Oleksij Rempel <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Tunin <hanipouspilot@xxxxxxxxx>
Reported-and-tested-by: Jimbo <jaime.91@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/video.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -155,6 +155,7 @@ struct acpi_video_bus {
u8 dos_setting;
struct acpi_video_enumerated_device *attached_array;
u8 attached_count;
+ u8 child_count;
struct acpi_video_bus_cap cap;
struct acpi_video_bus_flags flags;
struct list_head video_device_list;
@@ -1159,8 +1160,12 @@ static bool acpi_video_device_in_dod(str
struct acpi_video_bus *video = device->video;
int i;
- /* If we have a broken _DOD, no need to test */
- if (!video->attached_count)
+ /*
+ * If we have a broken _DOD or we have more than 8 output devices
+ * under the graphics controller node that we can't proper deal with
+ * in the operation region code currently, no need to test.
+ */
+ if (!video->attached_count || video->child_count > 8)
return true;
for (i = 0; i < video->attached_count; i++) {
@@ -1413,6 +1418,7 @@ acpi_video_bus_get_devices(struct acpi_v
dev_err(&dev->dev, "Can't attach device\n");
break;
}
+ video->child_count++;
}
return status;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/acpi-video-update-the-skip-case-for-acpi_video_device_in_dod.patch
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