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Stefan Bader 3a1151e3f1 ACPI: video: Loosen strictness of video bus detection code
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333386

Currently a video bus device must (beside other criteria) define _DOD and
_DOS methods to be considered a video device.
Some broken BIOSes prevented working backlight control by only defining both
for one (non-existing bus) and only _DOD for the rest. With this patch in
place the other bus definitions were considered too and backlight control
started to work again.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-10-13 02:50:38 -04:00
Len Brown a192a9580b ACPI: Move definition of PREFIX from acpi_bus.h to internal..h
Linux/ACPI core files using internal.h all PREFIX "ACPI: ",
however, not all ACPI drivers use/want it -- and they
should not have to #undef PREFIX to define their own.

Add GPL commment to internal.h while we are there.

This does not change any actual console output,
asside from a whitespace fix.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-28 19:57:27 -04:00
Alexander Chiang 1e4cffe78e ACPI: video: convert to acpi_get_pci_dev
Now that acpi_get_pci_dev is available, let's use it instead of
acpi_get_physical_pci_device()

Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-06-17 23:32:23 -04:00
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