From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:16:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20061011031643.GA4010@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20060930190810.30b8737f.alessandro.guido@gmail.com> <20061005103657.GA4474@ucw.cz> <20061006211751.GA31887@lists.us.dell.com> <200610102232.46627.luming.yu@gmail.com> <20061010212615.GB31972@srcf.ucam.org> <20061011030232.GA27693@lists.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([217.147.92.49]:32195 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030766AbWJKDQs (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:16:48 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061011030232.GA27693@lists.us.dell.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matt Domsch Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:02:32PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > Yes, our BIOS teams are looking to do exactly that. I wouldn't expect > such a change to be propogated back to earlier released systems though. That's great news. I accept that it's impractical to port back to earlier hardware, but it means it'll stop being a problem eventually. (Entirely unrelatedly, have you got any idea why several D-series Latitudes with Intel graphics switch off the backlight on lid close and never switch it back on again? It happens under Windows if you boot in safe mode, so it's not Linux specific...) -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org