Re: Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPIdrivers - version 4

Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-08-04T13:47:13Z

> > Hmhm so I should cherry-pick those patches (when merged) from drm-2.6 to
> > linux-acpi-2.6/test plus the previously attached patch from Thomas?
>
> Best just try Matthews, together with mine which went into Andi's test tree
> (version 4).
> The additional patch I sent today is only needed if Matthew's does not work
> for you and you want to try acpi_backlight=vendor on an IGD ThinkPad device.

Ok so I'll cherry pick Matthew's patches, test and report back tonight.

> When say in -rc5 you still have problems, the additional one can be
> tested/added, so that all the rest does not need to be reverted and we do not
> get regressions in 2.6.27.

Hmh but linux-acpi-2.6/test is meant to be merged mainline for 2.6.27?

Cheers,
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Yves-Alexis