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From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
To: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: mjg@redhat.com, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@kernel.org, "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@suse.com>,
	"Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.penalver@gmx.com>,
	Bence Lukacs <lukacs.bence1@gmail.com>,
	Joern Heissler <kernelbugs2012@joern.heissler.de>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>,
	Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acer-wmi: add 3 laptops to video backlight vendor mode quirk table
Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 00:09:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1419557.QLNuvvmj4y@valkyrie> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336220335-7004-1-git-send-email-jlee@suse.com>

On Saturday 05 May 2012 20:18:55 Lee, Chun-Yi wrote:
> Acer Extensa 5235, TravelMate 5760 and Aspire 5750 laptop have broken _BCM
> implemenation, the AML code wrote value to EC register but firmware didn't
> change brighenss.
> 
> Fortunately, the brightness control works on those machines with vendor
> mode. So, add this machine to video backlight vendor mode quirk table.

Is there no way we can auto-detect this somehow? Is there something peculiar 
about the broken implementation that we can use to do this detection instead?

-Carlos

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-05 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-05 12:18 [PATCH] acer-wmi: add 3 laptops to video backlight vendor mode quirk table Lee, Chun-Yi
2012-05-05 23:09 ` Carlos Corbacho [this message]
2012-05-06  9:45   ` joeyli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-05-21 15:19 Lee, Chun-Yi
2012-05-31 18:40 ` Matthew Garrett

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