Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.0 18/44] ACPI: video: Add backlight=native DMI quirk for Dell G15 5515

[Daniel Dadap <ddadap@nvidia.com>]

ACK for 6.0; this patch is appropriate for any branch which has the
nvidia-wmi-ec-backlight driver.

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 09:10:58PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> 
> [ Upstream commit f46acc1efd4b5846de9fa05f966e504f328f34a6 ]
> 
> The Dell G15 5515 has the WMI interface (and WMI call returns) expected
> by the nvidia-wmi-ec-backlight interface. But the backlight class device
> registered by the nvidia-wmi-ec-backlight driver does not actually work.
> 
> The amdgpu_bl0 native GPU backlight class device does actually work,
> add a backlight=native DMI quirk for this.
> 
> Reported-by: Iris <pawel.js@protonmail.com>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Dadap <ddadap@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Add a comment that this needs to be revisited when dynamic-mux
>   support gets added (suggested by: Daniel Dadap)
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
> index 68a566f69684..aae9261c424a 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
> @@ -578,6 +578,20 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_detect_dmi_table[] = {
>  		DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "GMxRGxx"),
>  		},
>  	},
> +	/*
> +	 * Models which have nvidia-ec-wmi support, but should not use it.
> +	 * Note this indicates a likely firmware bug on these models and should
> +	 * be revisited if/when Linux gets support for dynamic mux mode.
> +	 */
> +	{
> +	 .callback = video_detect_force_native,
> +	 /* Dell G15 5515 */
> +	 .matches = {
> +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
> +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Dell G15 5515"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +
>  	/*
>  	 * Desktops which falsely report a backlight and which our heuristics
>  	 * for this do not catch.
> -- 
> 2.35.1
>