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From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mjg@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix inconsistent backlight level during disabled
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:00:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yund3cqcvm4.fsf@aiko.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hboscpexg.wl%tiwai@suse.de>


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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:58:03 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

> When the brightness property is inquired while the backlight is disabled,
> the driver returns a wrong value (zero) because it probes the value after
> the backlight was turned off.  This caused a black screen even after the
> backlight is enabled again.  It should return the internal backlight_level
> instead, so that it won't be influenced by the backlight-enable state.

Yes, this looks correct by inspection to me. I'll stick it into
drm-intel-fixes.

-- 
keith.packard@intel.com

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From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alex Davis <alex14641@yahoo.com>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>,
	mjg@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix inconsistent backlight level during disabled
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:00:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yund3cqcvm4.fsf@aiko.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5hboscpexg.wl%tiwai@suse.de>

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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:58:03 +0100, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

> When the brightness property is inquired while the backlight is disabled,
> the driver returns a wrong value (zero) because it probes the value after
> the backlight was turned off.  This caused a black screen even after the
> backlight is enabled again.  It should return the internal backlight_level
> instead, so that it won't be influenced by the backlight-enable state.

Yes, this looks correct by inspection to me. I'll stick it into
drm-intel-fixes.

-- 
keith.packard@intel.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-17 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-16  9:58 [PATCH] drm/i915: Fix inconsistent backlight level during disabled Takashi Iwai
2011-11-16  9:58 ` Takashi Iwai
2011-11-16 13:19 ` Alex Davis
2011-11-20 16:28   ` Alex Davis
2011-11-17 21:00 ` Keith Packard [this message]
2011-11-17 21:00   ` Keith Packard
2011-11-19 20:02 ` Woody Suwalski

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