From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: i915 native backlight never got merged Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:31:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20110808213140.GA32504@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1312829662.3379.138.camel@fourier> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk (cavan.codon.org.uk [93.93.128.6]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9039E777 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2011 14:49:41 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces+gcfxdi-intel-gfx=m.gmane.org@lists.freedesktop.org To: Keith Packard Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, Andrew Morton List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 02:27:46PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:54:22 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote: > > > So what happened to that patch? Did it get lost or is it stuck > > somewhere? I humbly ask that it be re-reviewed and pushed upstream. > > Afraid it was forgotten -- Matthew, is this patch still useful? Yup. There's a small set of systems that appear to provide no firmware control mechanism. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org