From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [Bug #11557] Controlling backlight on thinkpad x60 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:18:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20080914101838.GA1681@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080913151330.GA20761@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080913151330.GA20761-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org> Sender: kernel-testers-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Matthew Garrett Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List On Sat 2008-09-13 16:13:30, Matthew Garrett wrote: > I don't think this is a regression. The correct way to drive this > hardware has always been through the ACPI video driver. The fact that > thinkpad-acpi would also attempt to drive it was a bug. I'm pretty sure thinkpad-acpi is older then ACPI-video. So yes, I believe this is a regression, but it may be pretty old one. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754182AbYINKRX (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:17:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752314AbYINKRO (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:17:14 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:48878 "EHLO gprs189-60.eurotel.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751740AbYINKRN (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:17:13 -0400 Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:18:39 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Matthew Garrett Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List Subject: Re: [Bug #11557] Controlling backlight on thinkpad x60 Message-ID: <20080914101838.GA1681@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080913151330.GA20761@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080913151330.GA20761@srcf.ucam.org> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat 2008-09-13 16:13:30, Matthew Garrett wrote: > I don't think this is a regression. The correct way to drive this > hardware has always been through the ACPI video driver. The fact that > thinkpad-acpi would also attempt to drive it was a bug. I'm pretty sure thinkpad-acpi is older then ACPI-video. So yes, I believe this is a regression, but it may be pretty old one. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html