[Intrepid] SRU: Backport fix for handling the brightness control on acer-wmi

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Tue May 12 13:31:55 UTC 2009


manoj.iyer at canonical.com wrote:
> ACK
> 
> Cheers
> --- manjo
> 
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Stefan Bader wrote:
> 
>> SRU justification:
>>
>> Impact: With the introduction of the upstream acpi backlight handling 
>> we introduced a inverse check which causes the acer-wmi driver only to 
>> be active if the acpi driver is present.
>>
>> Fix: Invert the check.
>>
>> Testcase: Without acpi support on acer laptops, there is no backlight 
>> control device.
>>
>> Note: there still seems to be another problem with the acer-wmi 
>> interface in general but this is definitely a required step to the 
>> solution.
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> When all other means of communication fail, try words!
>>
>>
>>
applied

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