Re: [PATCH 10/11] thinkpad_acpi: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality

Matthew Garrett
2008-07-17T11:25:40Z

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:18:08PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:46:22AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > The opregion brightness control code is part of the DRM tree, not ACPI.
> > It ought to be entirely orthogonal to Thomas' patches.
>
> For an "end user", what does this mean? What patches should we apply,
> against which tree, in order to be able to test and validate Thomas's
> patches?

Easiest is to wait for the DRM tree to be merged. The patch is against
DRM master, which doesn't apply directly to Linux - it needs some
post-processing first.
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