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From: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Cc: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>, David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	DRI <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [V2 PATCH 2/2] drivers-gpu-drm-i915-invert-backlight-brightness
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:16:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1331795799.3718.7.camel@mattotaupa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8662e6inzr.fsf@sumi.keithp.com>

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Am Mittwoch, den 14.03.2012, 19:42 -0700 schrieb Keith Packard:
> <#part sign=pgpmime>

Notmuch sometimes seems to add that line. Is that a bug?

> On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:35:46 +0100, Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org> wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds a module parameter to invert the backlight brightness
> > value before writing and after reading which makes the affected notebook
> > usable again.
> 
> You should add a quirk for this and set things up so that your machine
> automatically gets the right value; when we find more machines that do
> this, we can add them so that more people will get a system that 'just
> works'.

Keith, do you mean adding the quirk additionally in a separate patch?
Having that module option would ease testing the workaround without
needing to build a custom Linux kernel with a quirk added.


Thanks,

Paul



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  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14 23:35 [V2 PATCH 0/2] Provide workarounds to use DRM/KMS with broken graphics hardware Carsten Emde
2012-03-14 23:35 ` [V2 PATCH 1/2] drivers-gpu-drm-allow-to-load-edid-firmware.patch Carsten Emde
2012-03-15  7:13   ` Paul Menzel
2012-03-15 10:08     ` Thomas Gleixner
2012-03-18 10:54       ` Using quilt to send patches (was: [V2 PATCH 1/2] drivers-gpu-drm-allow-to-load-edid-firmware.patch) Paul Menzel
2012-03-18 10:56         ` Paul Menzel
2012-03-14 23:35 ` [V2 PATCH 2/2] drivers-gpu-drm-i915-invert-backlight-brightness Carsten Emde
2012-03-15  2:42   ` Keith Packard
2012-03-15  7:16     ` Paul Menzel [this message]
2012-03-15  7:24   ` Paul Menzel

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