From: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, andi@firstfloor.org
Subject: Re: ACPI video.c brightness handler conflicts with toshiba_acpi
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:08:33 +0100
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On Tuesday 28 October 2008 04:15:19 pm Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 of October 2008, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > On Monday 27 October 2008 17:52:55 Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > On Monday 08 September 2008, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 06 September 2008 09:19:59 am Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > > > On Saturday 06 September 2008, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > > > > > I have now two different devices that refer to the same hardware:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2008-09-06 11:04 acpi_video0 ->
> > > > > > ../../devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
> > > > > > root 0 2008-09-06 11:04 toshiba ->
> > > > > > ../../devices/virtual/backlight/toshiba/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Unfortunately, due to ACPI implementation the acpi_video0 one is
> > > > > > much inferior (as it provides only effectively two levels instead
> > > > > > of 8); and user level tools are apparently quite confused which
> > > > > > one to select.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is there any mechanism that would allow tochiba_acpi to claim
> > > > > > brightness for internal LCD screen that video would not attempt
> > > > > > to grab it too?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Of course manually disabling brightness handling in video is
> > > > > > always possible,
> > > > >
> > > > > Actually it is not. brightness_switch_enabled only disables event
> > > > > handling; it still resets actual brightness on loading and creates
> > > > > sysfs files to confuse user space.
> > > > >
> > > > > > still is nice for this to be handled automatically.
> > > >
> > > > It is in latest ACPI test branch queued for 2.6.28.
> > >
> > > It is still not in rc2; is it scheduled for 2.6.28 or delayed further?
> >
> > Right, it's not there.
> > Len, what happened with the:
> > "Check for ACPI backlight support otherwise use vendor ACPIdrivers -
> > version 4" patches?
> >
> > They are pretty essential for video.ko.
> > Otherwise graphics devices may get double poked (through vendor_acpi.ko
> > drivers) or may register for graphics cards which are not there.
>
> Do you have a pointer to those patches?

I remember they were in Andi's ACPI test branch already.
Andi/Len do you have an idea what happened to them?

   Thomas
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