From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans de Goede Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] eeepc-wmi: Add no backlight quirk for Asus H87I-PLUS Motherboard Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 15:57:51 +0200 Message-ID: <5398605F.3000009@redhat.com> References: <1400146779-5607-1-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> <1400146779-5607-2-git-send-email-hdegoede@redhat.com> <1402417012.670.1.camel@x230> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34431 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752172AbaFKN6J (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:58:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1402417012.670.1.camel@x230> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Matthew Garrett Cc: "karel.macha@karlitos.net" , "acpi4asus-user@lists.sourceforge.net" , "platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org" , "corentin.chary@gmail.com" Hi, On 06/10/2014 06:16 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, 2014-05-15 at 11:39 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097436 > > I'm not especially keen on this - if this seems like a general problem, > adding boards piecemeal to a DMI table will never solve it for most > people. What does performing the backlight calls actually do? The user has reported no adverse effects from the backlight control being present, other then gnome3 showing a brightness control in its system menu which is undesirable on a desktop machine. Regards, Hans