Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933276Ab3GVTrv (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:47:51 -0400 Received: from hydra.sisk.pl ([212.160.235.94]:33192 "EHLO hydra.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932820Ab3GVTru (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jul 2013 15:47:50 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Martin Steigerwald Cc: James Hogan , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kamal Mostafa , Matthew Garrett , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Steven Newbury Subject: Re: Linux 3.11-rc2 Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 21:57:53 +0200 Message-ID: <1547760.OlnzaD5I8M@vostro.rjw.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.9.5 (Linux/3.10.0+; KDE/4.9.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <12059860.v5tYy8yWHL@merkaba> References: <8019054.MeLu41uqLm@vostro.rjw.lan> <12059860.v5tYy8yWHL@merkaba> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2507 Lines: 52 On Monday, July 22, 2013 08:46:47 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 22. Juli 2013, 15:37:42 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 03:15:38 PM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Montag, 22. Juli 2013, 15:02:22 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki: > > > > On Monday, July 22, 2013 12:08:40 AM James Hogan wrote: > > > > > On 21 July 2013 20:53, Linus Torvalds > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > (b) we had a late change to how ACPI backlight handling is done on > > > > > > > > > > > > certain machines, and while this kind of thing really shouldn't be > > > > > > done outside the merge window, I ended up pulling it anyway. But I'd > > > > > > *really* like to have people test this thing particularly on laptops > > > > > > with intel-based graphics. It should only matter (and hopefully > > > > > > improve things) for the newer ones with BIOSes designed for Windows > > > > > > 8, > > > > > > but hey, the more testing, the better. Backlight handling has beenin > > > > > > painful before, so I'm mentioning this explicitly. > > > > > > > > > > 8c5bd7a "ACPI / video / i915: No ACPI backlight if firmware expects > > > > > Windows 8" breaks backlight control for me because > > > > > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0 disappears, and > > > > > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight doesn't seem to have any effect. > > > > > > > > > > Note that acpi_video0 only worked because I was applying "[PATCH] > > > > > drm/i915: quirk no PCH_PWM_ENABLE for Dell XPS13 backlight" [1], so > > > > > strictly speaking mainline already didn't work. > > > > > > > > James, sorry for breaking things for you. The patch you're mentioning > > > > is > > > > going to hit the mainline at one point anyway I suppose. > > > > > > Dunno whether thats related, but after locking screen today and screen > > > blanker kicking in (just a blank screen), I was not able to reactivate > > > the display again by typing a key or so unless I closed the laptop > > > display lid, let the machine suspend (to ram) and opened it again. > > > > > Plain 3.11-rc2 on ThinkPad T520: > > Well, please try to revert commits efaa14c and 8c5bd7a (in this order) and > > see if that helps. > > Okay. Done that. It does help. OK, thanks! Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/