Re: [PATCH] acpi-video: Filter the BCL table for duplicate brightness values

[Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>]

On 02/13/2014 11:32 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Some devices have duplicate entries in there brightness levels table, ie
> on my Dell Latitude E6430 the table looks like this:

For reference's purpose, can you please file a bug in kernel bugzilla
under the ACPI/Power-Video category and attach the acpidump there? Thanks.

-Aaron

> 
> [    3.686060] acpi backlight index   0, val 80
> [    3.686095] acpi backlight index   1, val 50
> [    3.686122] acpi backlight index   2, val 5
> [    3.686147] acpi backlight index   3, val 5
> [    3.686172] acpi backlight index   4, val 5
> [    3.686197] acpi backlight index   5, val 5
> [    3.686223] acpi backlight index   6, val 5
> [    3.686248] acpi backlight index   7, val 5
> [    3.686273] acpi backlight index   8, val 6
> [    3.686332] acpi backlight index   9, val 7
> [    3.686356] acpi backlight index  10, val 8
> [    3.686380] acpi backlight index  11, val 9
> etc.
> 
> Notice that brightness values 0-5 are all mapped to 5. This means that
> if userspace writes any value between 0 and 5 to the brightness sysfs attribute
> and then reads it, it will always return 0, which is somewhat unexpected.
> 
> This is a problem for ie gnome-settings-daemon, which uses read-modify-write
> logic when the users presses the brightness up or down keys. This is done
> this way to take brightness changes from other sources into account.
> 
> On this specific laptop what happens once the brightness has been set to 0,
> is that gsd reads 0, adds 5, writes 5, and on the next brightness up key press
> again reads 0, so things get stuck at the lowest brightness setting.
> 
> Filtering out the duplicate table entries, makes any write to brightness
> read back as the written value as one would expect, fixing this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/video.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
> index b727d10..ea9d914 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
> @@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ acpi_video_init_brightness(struct acpi_video_device *device)
>  	union acpi_object *o;
>  	struct acpi_video_device_brightness *br = NULL;
>  	int result = -EINVAL;
> +	u32 value;
>  
>  	if (!ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_video_device_lcd_query_levels(device, &obj))) {
>  		ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_INFO, "Could not query available "
> @@ -715,7 +716,12 @@ acpi_video_init_brightness(struct acpi_video_device *device)
>  			printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Invalid data\n");
>  			continue;
>  		}
> -		br->levels[count] = (u32) o->integer.value;
> +		value = (u32) o->integer.value;
> +		/* Skip duplicate entries */
> +		if (count > 2 && br->levels[count - 1] == value)
> +			continue;
> +
> +		br->levels[count] = value;
>  
>  		if (br->levels[count] > max_level)
>  			max_level = br->levels[count];
>