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Subject: Re: [pull] drm-intel-fixes
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:25:50 -0700
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On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 3:24 AM, St=E9phane Marchesin
> <stephane.marchesin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> wrote:
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> You're pull just reminded me that I've been sitting on a few small -fix=
es,
>>> too. Nothing really major at all:
>>> - fixup edp setup sequence (Dave)
>>> - disable sdvo hotplug for real, this is a fixup for a messed-up
>>>   regression fixer (Jani)
>>> - don't expose dysfunctional backlight driver (Jani)
>>
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> This change ("don't expose dysfunctional backlight driver") regresses
>> the backlight on Chromebooks, where we don't run the vbios.
>
> Presuming the patch works as advertised it only stops publishing an
> intel backlight driver which won't work. How does that break stuff?
>

Well it probably works as advertised to avoid exposing some broken
backlight, but the problem is that it also stops exposing a working
backlight on Chromebooks. However it sounds like the initial patch is
specific to a broken machine, so maybe a dmi match is more
appropriate?

> Or do you somehow update the max blc stuff only once i915.ko is loaded?
>

Yup that's what used to happen.

St=E9phane


> I'm decently confused how that one blows up ...
>
> Yours, Daniel
> --
> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch