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>, Hong Liu <hong.liu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI Check for backlight support via ACPI video.ko otherwise use vendor ACPI drivers
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:19:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080710111900.GA6303@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807101315.21904.trenn@suse.de>
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:15:18PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Thursday 10 July 2008 13:09:41 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > No I didn't. Please don't do this - we have all the code needed to do it
> > properly, so there's no need to use the thinkpad_acpi driver for
> > backlight control on this hardware.
> Ok.
> But haven't you said there are ThinkPad BIOSes missing a specific ACPI part
> and therefore you had the delay?
> If you could give me a dmidecode output, I like to add it.
> It would be great to have an example in the blacklist, then things are much
> easier for others...
No, I said that on Thinkpads with a PWM method, the PWM method has to be
called in order to avoid the delay. There's no need for a blacklist.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-10 11:19 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
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 [this message]
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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