Re: [PATCH 3/3] i915: Don't provide ACPI backlight interface if firmware expects Windows 8

Daniel Vetter
2013-06-15T20:35:46Z

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:27:06PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, June 15, 2013 08:29:42 PM Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > So to me it looks like the discussion is going in circles a bit, hence let
> > me drop my maintainer-opinion here:
> >
> > 1. Matthew's patch series here looks reasonable, and if it fixes a bunch
> > of systems (which it seems to) it has my Ack and imo should go in. If acpi
> > maintainers can smash their Ack onto the acpi parts I'd very much like to
> > merge this into drm-intel-next, that should give us the most coverage for
> > intel systems.
> >
> > Len, Rafael, are you ok with the acpi part of this and merging it through
> > drm-intel-next?
>
> It has to go through the ACPI tree because of the ACPICA patch that needs to
> be synchronized with the ACPICA upstream. Sorry.

No problem, since we're pretty close to the merge window that would have
at most resulted in a few more weeks of testing in i915 trees anyway. -rc
kernels should still give us plenty of time to catch fallout, if there is
any.

> That said, I'm going to take this patchset.

Thanks, Daniel
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