From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>,
"linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
"Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@gmail.com>,
"intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org"
<intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
"dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>, Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@gmail.com>,
Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] i915: Don't provide ACPI backlight interface if firmware expects Windows 8
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:44:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130615184405.GA11196@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130615182942.GA6424@phenom.ffwll.local>
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 08:29:42PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Aside at the end: If the gnome tool indeed has its own backlight code and
> doesn't just use that as a fallback if the xrandr backligh property isn't
> available, then that's just a serious bug in gnome and should be fixed
> asap. But imo that's not something we should try to (nor do I see any way
> how to) work around in the kernel.
It's only used if there's no backlight property on the display.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-15 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-09 23:01 [PATCH 0/3] Fix backlight issues on some Windows 8 systems Matthew Garrett
2013-06-09 23:01 ` [PATCH 1/3] acpi: video: add function to support unregister backlight interface Matthew Garrett
2013-06-09 23:01 ` [PATCH 2/3] ACPICA: Add interface for getting latest OS version requested via _OSI Matthew Garrett
2013-06-17 22:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-17 22:37 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-18 0:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-25 23:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-02 13:56 ` [PATCH 0/2] Expose OSI version Aaron Lu
2013-07-02 13:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPICA: expose " Aaron Lu
2013-07-02 14:01 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI / OSL: add a wrapper function to return " Aaron Lu
2013-07-03 21:57 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-04 1:24 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-05 19:52 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-09 23:01 ` [PATCH 3/3] i915: Don't provide ACPI backlight interface if firmware expects Windows 8 Matthew Garrett
2013-06-10 7:40 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-06-10 9:22 ` joeyli
2013-06-10 14:09 ` Alex Deucher
2013-06-14 6:47 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-14 17:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-15 1:26 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-15 1:38 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-15 4:14 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-15 4:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-15 12:29 ` Aaron Lu
2013-06-15 15:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-15 18:29 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-06-15 18:44 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2013-06-15 20:27 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-15 20:35 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-07-05 12:20 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-05 20:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-05 21:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-05 22:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-06 5:45 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-06 13:33 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-07 13:19 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-08 8:00 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-13 0:46 ` [Update][PATCH] ACPI / video / i915: Remove ACPI backlight " Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-15 2:36 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-15 11:42 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-16 3:24 ` Aaron Lu
2013-07-16 11:54 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-15 13:06 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-15 23:53 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-16 7:45 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-16 13:32 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-16 17:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-16 22:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-17 5:16 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-17 11:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-17 12:03 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-06-10 11:59 ` [PATCH 0/3] Fix backlight issues on some Windows 8 systems Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-06-10 13:48 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-11 13:08 ` Seth Forshee
2013-06-22 21:46 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 16:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 16:10 ` Daniel Vetter
2013-06-25 16:13 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 20:43 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 20:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 21:10 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 21:14 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 21:30 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 21:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-06-25 21:46 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-06-25 21:49 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-17 15:51 ` Felipe Contreras
2013-07-17 19:57 ` Yves-Alexis Perez
2013-07-18 0:16 ` [Update][PATCH " Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-18 0:20 ` [PATCH 1/3] ACPICA: expose OSI version Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-18 5:38 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-18 0:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] ACPI / video: Always call acpi_video_init_brightness() on init Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-18 5:40 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-18 0:22 ` [PATCH 3/3] ACPI / video / i915: No ACPI backlight if firmware expects Windows 8 Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-20 13:16 ` [Update][PATCH 0/3] Fix backlight issues on some Windows 8 systems Felipe Contreras
2013-07-31 0:01 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2013-07-31 0:01 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-07-31 6:48 ` Igor Gnatenko
2013-07-31 9:08 ` Aaron Lu
2013-08-07 7:44 ` Backlight control only in the kernel? Borislav Petkov
2013-08-07 9:03 ` Aaron Lu
2013-08-07 10:34 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-08-07 10:36 ` Matthew Garrett
2013-08-07 11:04 ` Borislav Petkov
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