Applied: [PATCH][raring] UBUNTU: SAUCE: ACPI: Disable Windows 8 compatibility for some Lenovo ThinkPads

[Leann Ogasawara]

Ack and applied to Raring master-next.  Also updated the commit subject
to mark it as "no-up" per Tim's suggestion.

Thanks,
Leann

On 04/19/2013 05:59 AM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> The AML implementation for brightness control on several ThinkPads
> contains a workaround to meet a Windows 8 requirement of 101 brightness
> levels [1]. The implementation is flawed, as only 16 of the brighness
> values reported by _BCL affect a change in brightness. _BCM silently
> discards the rest of the values. Disabling Windows 8 compatibility on
> these machines reverts them to the old behavior, making _BCL only report
> the 16 brightness levels which actually work. Add a quirk to do this
> along with a dmi callback to disable Win8 compatibility.
>
> [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/jj128256.aspx
>
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51231
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1098216
> Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/blacklist.c |   70 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 70 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c b/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
> index cb96296..13baad6 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/blacklist.c
> @@ -193,6 +193,13 @@ static int __init dmi_disable_osi_win7(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static int __init dmi_disable_osi_win8(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
> +{
> +	printk(KERN_NOTICE PREFIX "DMI detected: %s\n", d->ident);
> +	acpi_osi_setup("!Windows 2012");
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static struct dmi_system_id acpi_osi_dmi_table[] __initdata = {
>  	{
>  	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_vista,
> @@ -269,6 +276,69 @@ static struct dmi_system_id acpi_osi_dmi_table[] __initdata = {
>  	},
>  
>  	/*
> +	 * The following Lenovo models have a broken workaround in the
> +	 * acpi_video backlight implementation to meet the Windows 8
> +	 * requirement of 101 backlight levels. Reverting to pre-Win8
> +	 * behavior fixes the problem.
> +	 */
> +	{
> +	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
> +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad L430",
> +	.matches = {
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad L430"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +	{
> +	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
> +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad T430s",
> +	.matches = {
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad T430s"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +	{
> +	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
> +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad T530",
> +	.matches = {
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad T530"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +	{
> +	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
> +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad W530",
> +	.matches = {
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad W530"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +	{
> +	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
> +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon",
> +	.matches = {
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad X1 Carbon"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +	{
> +	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
> +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad X230",
> +	.matches = {
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad X230"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +	{
> +	.callback = dmi_disable_osi_win8,
> +	.ident = "Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E330",
> +	.matches = {
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "LENOVO"),
> +		     DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_VERSION, "ThinkPad Edge E330"),
> +		},
> +	},
> +
> +	/*
>  	 * BIOS invocation of _OSI(Linux) is almost always a BIOS bug.
>  	 * Linux ignores it, except for the machines enumerated below.
>  	 */