[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: do not disable backlight on vgaswitcheroo switch off

[Jani Nikula]

On muxed systems, the other vgaswitcheroo client may depend on i915 to
handle the backlight. We began switching off the backlight since

commit a261b246ebd552fd5d5a8ed84cc931bb821c427f
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
Date:   Thu Jul 26 19:21:47 2012 +0200

    drm/i915: disable all crtcs at suspend time

breaking backlight on discreet graphics in (some) muxed systems.

Keep the backlight on when the state is changed through vgaswitcheroo.

Note: The alternative would be to add a quirk table to achieve the same
based on system identifiers, but AFAICS it would asymptotically approach
effectively the same as this patch as more IDs are added, but with the
maintenance burden of the quirk table.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55311
Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59785
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c |   11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
index 67e2c1f..1062154 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_panel.c
@@ -515,6 +515,17 @@ void intel_panel_disable_backlight(struct drm_device *dev)
 	struct drm_i915_private *dev_priv = dev->dev_private;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
+	/*
+	 * Do not disable backlight on the vgaswitcheroo path. When switching
+	 * away from i915, the other client may depend on i915 to handle the
+	 * backlight. This will leave the backlight on unnecessarily when
+	 * another client is not activated.
+	 */
+	if (dev->switch_power_state == DRM_SWITCH_POWER_CHANGING) {
+		DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("Skipping backlight disable on vga switch\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&dev_priv->backlight.lock, flags);
 
 	dev_priv->backlight.enabled = false;
-- 
1.7.9.5