From: Andrzej Prochyra <andrzej@prochyra.name>
To: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Corentin Chary" <corentincj@iksaif.net>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
"Zhang Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Matthew Garrett" <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
"Richard Schütz" <r.schtz@t-online.de>,
"Seth Forshee" <seth.forshee@canonical.com>,
"Len Brown" <lenb@kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI / Video: blacklist some samsung laptops
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 22:34:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878vlgjyjl.fsf@prochyra.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANq1E4QGahjrxm5B59HGnrfO3LP4kV6bc27BKQDvnJ4HBKAFMg@mail.gmail.com> (David Herrmann's message of "Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:39:43 +0100")
David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com> writes:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net> wrote:
>> On these laptops, the ACPI video is not functional, and very unlikely
>> to be fixed by the vendor. Note that intel_backlight works for some
>> of these laptops, and the backlight from samsung-laptop always work.
>>
>> The good news is that newer laptops have functional ACPI video device
>> and won't end up growing this list.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Corentin Chary <corentincj@iksaif.net>
>> ---
>>
>> Could the concerned people test this patch and check that it correctly
>> disable the acpi_video backlight ?
>
> Works like a charm on my N210 with linux-3.2. Feel free to add a:
> Tested-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
>
> I will talk to the intel drm developers about the intel_backlight
> issues as they don't seem related to this driver.
I can confirm on my N150 Plus. Now only 'intel_backlight' is created
and exhibits the aforementioned issues.
--
Andrzej Prochyra
<andrzej@prochyra.name>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-09 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-22 22:19 [PATCH] Platform: samsung-laptop: add DMI information for Samsung N150 Plus Andrzej Prochyra
2011-12-23 14:15 ` Corentin Chary
2011-12-24 14:12 ` Andrzej Prochyra
2011-12-24 14:20 ` Matthew Garrett
2011-12-24 14:28 ` David Herrmann
2011-12-26 9:49 ` Corentin Chary
2011-12-26 10:22 ` David Herrmann
2011-12-29 10:23 ` Corentin Chary
2011-12-29 11:45 ` Richard Schütz
2011-12-29 11:49 ` Corentin Chary
2011-12-29 14:02 ` David Herrmann
2012-01-04 20:51 ` Seth Forshee
2012-01-05 7:18 ` Corentin Chary
2012-01-05 15:08 ` Seth Forshee
2012-01-07 14:12 ` [PATCH] ACPI / Video: blacklist some samsung laptops Corentin Chary
2012-01-08 10:46 ` Seth Forshee
2012-01-08 12:36 ` Corentin Chary
2012-01-08 12:36 ` Corentin Chary
2012-01-08 13:40 ` Seth Forshee
2012-01-09 16:39 ` David Herrmann
2012-01-09 22:34 ` Andrzej Prochyra [this message]
2011-12-26 9:51 ` [PATCH] Platform: samsung-laptop: add DMI information for Samsung N150 Plus Corentin Chary
2011-12-26 12:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-23 10:41 ` Corentin Chary
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-01-17 7:08 [PATCH] ACPI / Video: blacklist some samsung laptops Corentin Chary
2012-01-17 20:19 ` Seth Forshee
2012-01-30 8:26 ` Corentin Chary
2012-02-19 19:56 ` Corentin Chary
2012-02-20 11:06 ` David Herrmann
2012-02-20 14:27 ` Corentin Chary
2012-03-05 9:01 Corentin Chary
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