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From: "Michel Dänzer" <michel@daenzer.net>
To: "Robert T. Drury" <rtdrury@earthlink.net>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] resend: radeon backlight shutoff flashes momentarily
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:21:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1238584865.7828.9462.camel@thor.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49D3339A.8070603@earthlink.net>

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 02:27 -0700, Robert T. Drury wrote:
> Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12845
> 
> Aluminum Powerbook G4 with Radeon 9600:
> 
> The backlight momentarily flashes brightly when turning off.  If the
> backlight is originally dim, the flash is more noticeable.  This momentary
> flash is stressful on the power circuit.
> 
> This patch removes the & ~LVDS_BL_MOD_EN above the first OUTREG to 
> LVDS_GEN_CNTL to eliminate the flash on shutoff, only for powerbook5,3 
> and CHIP_FAMILY_RV350.

As you're checking for a specific Apple laptop model, there's no need to
check the chip family as well.

(As mentioned before, I'm seeing the flash on a PowerBook5,8 as well,
but I haven't got around to trying the patch, will do when I get time)


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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-01  9:27 [PATCH] resend: radeon backlight shutoff flashes momentarily Robert T. Drury
2009-04-01 11:21 ` Michel Dänzer [this message]
2009-04-06 14:41   ` Michel Dänzer
2009-04-10  8:45 ` Andrew Morton

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