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From: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-acpi <linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
	"Zhang, Rui" <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Subject: [RESEND PATCH 7/7] ACPI : add a warning message if _BQC is not found
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:57:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236848231.2807.76.camel@rzhang-dt> (raw)

ACPI backlight control w/o _BQC support is kinda firmware bug.
Add a warning if _BQC is not implemented.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/video_detect.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ acpi_backlight_cap_match(acpi_handle han
 		ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "Found generic backlight "
 				  "support\n"));
 		*cap |= ACPI_VIDEO_BACKLIGHT;
+		if (ACPI_FAILURE(acpi_get_handle(handle, "_BQC", &h_dummy)))
+			printk(KERN_WARNING FW_BUG PREFIX "ACPI brightness "
+					"control misses _BQC function\n");
 		/* We have backlight support, no need to scan further */
 		return AE_CTRL_TERMINATE;
 	}



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