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From: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
To: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, airlied@linux.ie,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: max PWM is zero
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:40:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86ipmdgcjo.fsf@sumi.keithp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1111212248140.2070@darkstar.example.net>

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On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:48:21 +0000 (Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page), Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.mage@gmail.com> wrote:

> My max_brightness is 1, and my brightness is 0.

Right, we've prevented the internal backlight driver from exposing a max
value of 0 as that's just confusing.

> But, my acpi_video0 have a 
> max_brightness value = 9...

Right, sounds like your device is just using some other backlight
controller, which is perfectly reasonable.

> So, what can I do to silence this warning...? Change the driver of 
> backlight?

If your backlight keys work correctly, then things are fine and perhaps
we should just remove the warning from the driver, or disable the
internal driver when we discover this situation.

This is the first time I've heard of this warning appearing...

-- 
keith.packard@intel.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-22  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-15 15:14 max PWM is zero Marcos Paulo de Souza
     [not found] ` <alpine.LNX.2.00.1111191124350.5248@darkstar.example.net>
2011-11-19 18:50   ` Keith Packard
     [not found]     ` <alpine.LNX.2.00.1111212248140.2070@darkstar.example.net>
2011-11-22  1:40       ` Keith Packard [this message]
2011-11-22  2:38         ` Lucas De Marchi

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