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

Yves-Alexis Perez
2008-07-16T15:49:48Z

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:29:39PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:27:55PM +0200, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 July 2008 15:38:39 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 09:40:44AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> > wrote:
> > > > > One question: is there a good reason to actually have the hotkey
> > > > > handling for IGD mode directly in thinkpad-acpi? We don't do it for
> > > > > Vista BIOS, video.ko doesn't do it either (anymore)... and I would make
> > > > > it configurable for IBM firmware if I could.
> > > >
> > > > No. There's no reason to have IGD handling in thinkpad-acpi at all.
> > I haven't seen the video driver on a T61 with Intel card doing proper
> > backlight switching on the correct device yet.
>
> The patch is queued and will be in 2.6.27. It's fine.

Does this mean that linux-next + the 2 generic patches + (fixed)
thinkpad-acpi one would be enough to test?

Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis