[PATCH v2 21/29] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Drop DMI chassis-type check from backlight handling

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Tue Jul 12 19:39:02 UTC 2022


Remove this check from the asus-wmi backlight handling:

	/* Some Asus desktop boards export an acpi-video backlight interface,
	   stop this from showing up */
	chassis_type = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_CHASSIS_TYPE);
	if (chassis_type && !strcmp(chassis_type, "3"))
		acpi_video_set_dmi_backlight_type(acpi_backlight_vendor);

This acpi_video_set_dmi_backlight_type(acpi_backlight_vendor) call must be
removed because other changes in this series change the native backlight
drivers to no longer unconditionally register their backlight. Instead
these drivers now do this check:

        if (acpi_video_get_backlight_type(false) != acpi_backlight_native)
                return 0; /* bail */

So leaving this in place can break things on laptops with a broken
DMI chassis-type, which would have GPU native brightness control before
the addition of the acpi_video_get_backlight_type() != native check.

Removing this should be ok now, since the ACPI video code has improved
heuristics for this itself now (which includes a chassis-type check).

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
index 62ce198a3463..9dab0998cd20 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
@@ -3528,7 +3528,6 @@ static int asus_wmi_add(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct platform_driver *pdrv = to_platform_driver(pdev->dev.driver);
 	struct asus_wmi_driver *wdrv = to_asus_wmi_driver(pdrv);
 	struct asus_wmi *asus;
-	const char *chassis_type;
 	acpi_status status;
 	int err;
 	u32 result;
@@ -3610,12 +3609,6 @@ static int asus_wmi_add(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	if (asus->driver->quirks->wmi_force_als_set)
 		asus_wmi_set_als();
 
-	/* Some Asus desktop boards export an acpi-video backlight interface,
-	   stop this from showing up */
-	chassis_type = dmi_get_system_info(DMI_CHASSIS_TYPE);
-	if (chassis_type && !strcmp(chassis_type, "3"))
-		acpi_video_set_dmi_backlight_type(acpi_backlight_vendor);
-
 	if (asus->driver->quirks->wmi_backlight_power)
 		acpi_video_set_dmi_backlight_type(acpi_backlight_vendor);
 
-- 
2.36.0



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