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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] ACPI / Video: blacklist some samsung laptops
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:30:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120320163002.GB6811@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHR064gLwW32y511tAEf4x59QEaWQzy-i=K7jF8YYC3GS4JHow@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 05:28:06PM +0100, Corentin Chary wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > Are the hotkeys delivered via ACPI or via the Samsung device? If the
> > latter, you can just do unregister_acpi_video() instead in the samsung
> > driver and avoid having more machine-specific quirks in the ACPi code.
> 
> I wasn't aware of acpi_video_unregister(). The issue with that
> solution is that it makes it harder to respect acpi_video= parameter.
> 
> On these machines, the ACPI Video device is broken (I don't know how,
> I don't have the hardware, I just know it doesn't work at all), and I
> want the default to be acpi_backlight=vendor, but it is still a good
> idea to let users force acpi_backlight=video.

If it's broken then I don't think there's a great argument for providing 
an argument just to let people re-break their kernel :)

> But if the policy is to use acpi_video_unregister() when the video
> module is known to be broken, let's do that.

As long as ACPI isn't being used to deliver brightness keys, then this 
is fine.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-20 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1332233594-13099-1-git-send-email-corentin.chary@gmail.com>
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 01/14] ACPI / Video: blacklist some samsung laptops Corentin Chary
2012-03-20 16:05   ` Matthew Garrett
2012-03-20 16:28     ` Corentin Chary
2012-03-20 16:30       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2012-03-22 13:08         ` [PATCH] samsung-laptop: unregister ACPI video module for some well known laptops Corentin Chary
2012-03-27  9:11           ` Corentin Chary
2012-03-27 11:21             ` Matthew Garrett
2012-04-06  9:42               ` Corentin Chary
2012-04-06 14:34                 ` Seth Forshee
2012-04-17  8:31                   ` Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 02/14] asus-nb-wmi: ignore useless keys Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 03/14] eeepc-wmi: add extra keymaps for EP121 Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 04/14] asus-wmi: on/off bit is not set when reading the value Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 05/14] drivers, samsung-laptop: fix initialization of sabi_data in sabi_set_commandb Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 06/14] drivers, samsung-laptop: fix usage of isalnum Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 07/14] samsung-laptop: cleanup return type: mode_t vs umode_t Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 08/14] asus-wmi: add scalar board brightness adj. support Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 09/14] asus-wmi: store backlight power status for AIO machine Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 10/14] asus-wmi: move WAPF variable into quirks_entry Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 11/14] asus-nb-wmi: set panel_power correctly Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 12/14] eeepc-wmi: refine quirks handling Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 13/14] eeepc-wmi: split et2012 specific hacks Corentin Chary
2012-03-20  8:53 ` [PATCH 14/14] asus-wmi: don't update power and brightness when using scalar Corentin Chary

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