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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Zhang Rui 98758faffc ACPI video: add a warning message if _BQC is not found
ACPI backlight control w/o _BQC support is kinda firmware bug.
Add a warning if _BQC is not implemented.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-03-27 22:37:22 -04:00
Roel Kluin 8a383ef0be ACPI: ec.c, pci_link.c, video_detec.c: static
Sparse asked whether these could be static.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-30 23:27:04 -05:00
Len Brown f398778aa3 Merge branch 'video' into release
Conflicts:
	Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-11 21:15:50 -05:00
Thomas Renninger c3d6de698c ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).

Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.

This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.

"acpi_backlight=vendor"
	Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
	Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 23:57:55 -05:00