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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gma500: Skip bogus LVDS VBT mode and check for LVDS before adding backlight
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 18:55:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110511185553.5260805f@bob.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110511172053.GA3557@patrik-macbook>

On Wed, 11 May 2011 19:20:53 +0200
Patrik Jakobsson <patrik.r.jakobsson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On the Fit-PC2 the VBT reports an invalid fixed panel mode for LVDS,
> this gets in the way for SDVO. This patch makes VBT parsing skip the
> invalid mode. When there is no LVDS output the backlight support
> crashes so the patch also checks for this before enabling it.

Looks good for now. The backlight is a bit more complicated I think
(users can turn on the LVDS at runtime in theory) but we can handle
that later so long as we tag it with a /* FIXME: Handle turning on LVDS
at runtime */

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-11 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-11 17:20 [PATCH] gma500: Skip bogus LVDS VBT mode and check for LVDS before adding backlight Patrik Jakobsson
2011-05-11 17:55 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2011-05-11 19:58   ` Patrik Jakobsson
2011-05-11 20:01     ` Alan Cox

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