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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpi-video: Add disable_native_backlight quirk for Dell XPS15 L521X
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 02:44:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150112024411.GA6831@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54B25280.6010604@redhat.com>

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:37:52AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:

> Userspace is writing to the intel_backlight device because it is the
> only one present under /sys/class/backlight, as we disable acpi-video
> on win8 ready laptops by default now.

Why is nouveau not providing a backlight device?

> The commit message may not be 100% accurate, although I believe this is
> related to the laptop having nvidia graphics, but the code / fix is correct
> regardless.

I don't think we have enough evidence to know whether this fix is 
correct.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-12  2:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-05  7:57 [PATCH] acpi-video: Add disable_native_backlight quirk for Dell XPS15 L521X Hans de Goede
2015-01-05 23:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2015-01-11  6:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2015-01-11 10:37   ` Hans de Goede
2015-01-12  2:44     ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2015-01-12  9:12       ` Hans de Goede
2015-01-12 10:21         ` Matthew Garrett

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