[PATCH v2 00/32] acpi-video: Rewrite backlight interface selection logic

Darren Hart dvhart at infradead.org
Tue Jun 16 20:39:21 PDT 2015


On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 01:22:40AM +0200, Rafael Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, June 12, 2015 01:23:19 PM Hans de Goede wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Here is v2 of my rewrite / cleanup of the acpi-video (and platform/x86)
> > backlight interface selection logic.
> > 
> > The major change in v2 of this set are 2 changes to the patch titled
> > "acpi-video-detect: video: Make video_detect code part of the video module":
> > 
> > 1) The __setup call for the acpi_backlight= handling is moved to
> >    acpi/util.c as __setup may only be used by code which is always builtin
> > 2) video.c is renamed to acpi_video.c so that it can be combined with
> >    video_detect.c into video.ko
> > 
> > These 2 changes result in the backlight kernel commandline options after this
> > patch-set being 100% compatible with the old options, with the exception of
> > the removal of the video.use_native_backlight option as that now is folded
> > into acpi_backlight=[video|vendor|native|none] rather then having 2 options
> > which influence each other in interesting ways.
> > 
> > Besides that there is a small change to the dell-laptop port to the new API
> > removing an unnecessary #ifdef ACPI.
> 
> I tried to queue this series up for 4.2, but patch [06/32] didn't apply for me,
> so I decided to apply another patch I've got recently instead and which is now
> in my linux-next branch.
> 
> Can you please rebase the series on top of linux-pm.git/linux-next and resend it?

Rafael, do you intent to carry this entire series and submit via linux-pm?

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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center


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