Re: [PATCH] ACPI video: ignore buggy _BQC

[Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>]

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 14:09 +0800, Len Brown wrote:
> scripts/checkpatch.pl
> total: 9 errors, 0 warnings, 24 lines checked
> 
sorry, refreshed patch attached.

From: Scott Howard <showard314@gmail.com>

_BQC doesn't return a value listed in _BCL method.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13511

ingore the buggy _BQC method in this case

Signed-off-by: Scott Howard <showard314@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/video.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/video.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -594,6 +594,7 @@ acpi_video_device_lcd_get_level_current(
 					unsigned long long *level)
 {
 	acpi_status status = AE_OK;
+	int i;
 
 	if (device->cap._BQC || device->cap._BCQ) {
 		char *buf = device->cap._BQC ? "_BQC" : "_BCQ";
@@ -609,8 +610,15 @@ acpi_video_device_lcd_get_level_current(
 
 			}
 			*level += bqc_offset_aml_bug_workaround;
-			device->brightness->curr = *level;
-			return 0;
+			for (i = 2; i < device->brightness->count; i++)
+				if (device->brightness->levels[i] == *level) {
+					device->brightness->curr = *level;
+					return 0;
+			}
+			/* BQC returned an invalid level. Stop using it.  */
+			ACPI_WARNING((AE_INFO, "%s returned an invalid level",
+						buf));
+			device->cap._BQC = device->cap._BCQ = 0;
 		} else {
 			/* Fixme:
 			 * should we return an error or ignore this failure?