[PATCH 00/10] [Intrepid] SRU: LP#257827 -- acpi brightness control

[Tim Gardner]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> This series represents a backport of a change to the ACPI backlight
> support.  This change was original done to sort out brightness control
> problems for a number of different laptop models triggered by non-existant
> devices being created (as reported on this bug).  These changes also
> are reported to fix boot crashes on a number of Samsung laptops (as
> reported on LP#146692).  All of these changes are direct back ports from
> mainline, no changes were needed to apply them.  They are all upstream
> as of v2.6.28-rc5.
> 
> I have built test kernels with these applied and a number of community
> members have tested these and confirm that they do indeed allow those
> laptops to boot and brightness control is improved there.
> 
> Proposing these for SRU to Intrepid.
> 
> -apw

Disregard previous transmission wrt to '[PATCH 01/10] ACPI: video:
Ignore devices that aren't present in hardware'

Provisional ACK pending test results.
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com