[Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On 08/09/2011 12:43 AM, Keith Packard wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:31:40 +0100, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 
>> Yup. There's a small set of systems that appear to provide no firmware 
>> control mechanism.
> 
> There were a few comments in that old thread about the patch as
> submitted; is there an updated version?
> 
The last patch I could find is in linux-next's next-20110726 tag; looks
like it disappeared from Matthew's git tree afterwards, and thus not in
any subsequent linux-next tags.

commit fa7419eee713b989e2c268c7b06ec9a544a2b647
Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg at redhat.com>
Date:   Sat Jul 16 23:31:01 2011 +1000

FYI, I'm using that on top of Linux 3.0 and 3.1-rc1 and it still works fine.

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