Re: [PATCH] Fix backlight control for Acer TravelMate B113

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>]

On Monday, June 30, 2014 09:29:54 AM Aaron Lu wrote:
> On 06/29/2014 04:42 PM, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> > Am 2014-06-23 22:30, schrieb Martin Kepplinger:
> >> Fix backlight control for Acer TravelMate B113 Laptop by adding
> >> it to the video_dmi_table.
> >>
> >> A workaround before that was to use acpi_osi=Linux or
> >> acpi_backlight=vendor on boot but even then, only the function-
> >> keys worked.
> >>
> >> With this change there is no need for boot parameters and DE's
> >> controls work as well.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
> >> Tested-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/acpi/video.c |    8 ++++++++
> >>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
> >> index f8bc5a7..acb0670 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
> >> @@ -528,6 +528,14 @@ static struct dmi_system_id video_dmi_table[] __initdata = {
> >>  		},
> >>  	},
> >>  	{
> >> +	 .callback = video_set_use_native_backlight,
> >> +	 .ident = "Acer TravelMate B113",
> >> +	 .matches = {
> >> +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Acer"),
> >> +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "TravelMate B113"),
> >> +		},
> >> +	},
> >> +	{
> >>  	.callback = video_set_use_native_backlight,
> >>  	.ident = "HP ProBook 4340s",
> >>  	.matches = {
> >>
> > 
> > are there objections or advice on this? this would be really good to
> > have, even if for 3.17.
> 
> For v3.16, we already have this commit to make use_native_backlight
> equal to 1 by default:
> 
> commit 751109aad5834375ca9ed0dcfcd85a00cbf872b5
> Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
> Date:   Thu Jun 5 22:47:35 2014 +0200
> 
>     ACPI / video: Change the default for video.use_native_backlight to 1

Nevertheless, we may need the blacklist entries in case we need to revert the
above commit and also in case we want them to be backported to -stable (or LTSI
etc.).

Rafael