From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add intel drm blacklist to intel_opregion_present detect Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:27:45 +0100 Message-ID: <20100711142745.GA27197@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1278808157-6441-1-git-send-email-jlee@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:39127 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752020Ab0GKO1w (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jul 2010 10:27:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1278808157-6441-1-git-send-email-jlee@novell.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Lee, Chun-Yi" Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, "Lee, Chun-Yi" On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 08:29:17AM +0800, Lee, Chun-Yi wrote: > There have some machines not support by i915 drm driver, e.g. MSI U110/U150, > there are use poulsbo chip and drm driver not support it because legal issue. > Those machines's acpi backlight control actually work fine and don't need apply > the intel opregion support. > So, add intel drm blacklist to intel_opregion_present, it can enable the acpi > brightness interface but not use intel opregion. The correct fix is for a native Poulsbo driver that impleents the opregion spec. If people are running vesa on these machines then I think backlight control is really the least of their concerns. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org