[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: assume all GM45 Acer laptops use inverted backlight PWM

Daniel Vetter daniel at ffwll.ch
Fri Sep 20 23:51:16 CEST 2013


On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 03:05:30PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> There is plenty of evidence suggesting all of the GM45 based Acer
> laptops (including their eMachines and Packard Bell brands) use inverted
> backlight PWM. Assume this is really the case, and quirk them all.
> 
> The old bugs that were fixed by subsystem device specific quirks:
>  * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59628
>  * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31522#c35
>  * https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44156
>  * https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53881
> 
> See also this bug and the plethora of duplicates:
>  * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/765438
> 
> References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54171
> Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>

Queued for -next, thanks for the patch. I don't really want to rock the
boat by pushing this to -fixes.
-Daniel
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