From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aaron Lu Subject: Re: [PATCH] Default to using the native backlight control on Windows 8 systems Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:56:13 +0800 Message-ID: <534759CD.20405@intel.com> References: <1397160803-24297-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]:36436 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754362AbaDKC4I (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:56:08 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1397160803-24297-1-git-send-email-matthew.garrett@nebula.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Matthew Garrett , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On 04/11/2014 04:13 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > The list of machines in the "Use native backlight" table is getting longer > and longer, which is a solid indication that we're doing something wrong. > Disable the ACPI backlight interface if the system claims to be Windows 8 > or later. And has a native backlight control interface. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett > --- > > Let's at least get this into -next for 3.16 and figure out whether the > drivers actually work now. I agree.