From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@canonical.com>
Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>,
"Hans de Goede" <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
"Mark Gross" <markgross@kernel.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Add drm module soft dependency
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2023 05:20:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230607042032.GA28835@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230607034331.576623-1-acelan.kao@canonical.com>
On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 11:43:31AM +0800, AceLan Kao wrote:
> From: "Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan)" <acelan.kao@canonical.com>
>
> dell_laptop is somethines loaded before nvidia driver, causing it to
> create its own backlight interface before native backlight is set.
> This results in the presence of 2 backlight interfaces in sysfs and
> leads to the backlight can't be adjusted.
It seems like this approach would still be broken if the nvidia module
isn't available at the time the dell module is loaded?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-07 4:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-07 3:43 [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-laptop: Add drm module soft dependency AceLan Kao
2023-06-07 4:20 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2023-06-07 5:19 ` AceLan Kao
2023-06-07 5:27 ` Matthew Garrett
2023-06-07 6:13 ` AceLan Kao
2023-06-07 6:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2023-06-07 6:56 ` Pali Rohár
2023-06-07 7:39 ` AceLan Kao
2023-06-07 7:47 ` Matthew Garrett
2023-06-07 19:16 ` Hans de Goede
2023-06-08 3:04 ` AceLan Kao
2023-06-08 9:16 ` Hans de Goede
2023-06-13 7:30 ` AceLan Kao
2023-06-13 8:54 ` Hans de Goede
2023-06-15 1:53 ` AceLan Kao
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