From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>,
Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>,
Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au>,
malattia@linux.it, stelian@popies.net,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
Corentin CHARY <corentincj@iksaif.net>,
Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
Julia Jomantaite <julia.jomantaite@gmail.com>,
corsac@debian.org, dannybaumann@web.de, marcus@better.se,
Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI Check for backlight support via ACPI video.ko otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 17:21:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080703162152.GC29110@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807031809.03172.trenn@suse.de>
On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 06:08:59PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> + if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_get_handle(device->handle, "DRDY", &h_dummy))) {
> + ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "Found IGD device\n"));
> + video_caps |= ACPI_VIDEO_IGD;
> + }
In principle, it's possible for a vendor to implement opregion but not
actually use it until the tche flags are set. If anyone's done that then
you've just broken backlight control on their system.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 16:08 [PATCH 2/2] ACPI Check for backlight support via ACPI video.ko otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers Thomas Renninger
2008-07-03 16:21 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-07-03 22:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-09 14:49 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-07-09 14:57 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-09 16:00 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-07-10 10:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-10 11:00 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-07-10 11:09 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-10 11:15 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-07-10 11:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-10 11:36 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-07-10 11:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-10 12:19 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-07-10 12:24 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-10 12:48 ` Thomas Renninger
2008-07-10 12:58 ` Matthew Garrett
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