From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] thinkpad_acpi: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:25:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20080717112530.GA25454@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1216205553-8486-1-git-send-email-trenn@suse.de> <20080716124703.GA376@srcf.ucam.org> <20080716133839.GB3329@khazad-dum.debian.net> <200807161727.57026.trenn@suse.de> <20080716152938.GA8676@srcf.ucam.org> <487F0C9B.4010502@linux.intel.com> <20080717104622.GA24906@srcf.ucam.org> <20080717111808.GC16009@corsac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:33568 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751202AbYGQLZk (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:25:40 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080717111808.GC16009@corsac.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Yves-Alexis Perez Cc: Andi Kleen , Thomas Renninger , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh , jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au, rui.zhang@intel.com, corentincj@iksaif.net, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, dannybaumann@web.de, marcus@better.se, mzxreary@0pointer.de, carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk, malattia@linux.it 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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org