[PATCH 2/3] acpi_video: Intel video is not always i915

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Wed Apr 25 05:48:45 PDT 2012


On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 01:49:40PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:40:18 +0100
> Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > No you don't - there's various platforms that will hang if you do that. 
> > It's necessary to make sure that the DIDL fields are set up before 
> > calling any ACPI video functions on opregion hardware.
> 
> Then the existing driver code is already broken, because it ifdefs out
> the check if i915 is not compiled for the kernel.

Yes, that does seem broken. I'm fine with just removing the #ifdefs and 
adding the i740 check.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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