[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/i915: quirk invert brightness for Acer Aspire 5336" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon Apr 21 09:26:54 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/i915: quirk invert brightness for Acer Aspire 5336

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:30:34 +0200
Subject: drm/i915: quirk invert brightness for Acer Aspire 5336
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commit 0f540c3a7cfb91c9d7a19eb0c95c24c5de1197d5 upstream.

Since
commit ee1452d7458451a7508e0663553ce88d63958157
Author: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Date:   Fri Sep 20 15:05:30 2013 +0300

    drm/i915: assume all GM45 Acer laptops use inverted backlight PWM

failed and was later reverted in
commit be505f643925e257087247b996cd8ece787c12af
Author: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum at fastmail.fm>
Date:   Sat Dec 28 21:00:39 2013 +0100

    Revert "drm/i915: assume all GM45 Acer laptops use inverted backlight PWM"

fix the individual broken machine instead.

Note to backporters:

http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/17837/

is the patch you want for 3.13 and older.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54171
Reference: http://mid.gmane.org/DUB115-W7628C7C710EA51AA110CD4A5000@phx.gbl
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
[danvet: Patch mangling for 3.14 plus adding the link to the original
for 3.13.]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
[ luis: backported to 3.11: used backport suggested in commit message ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
index 5df9798..a61290e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c
@@ -9544,6 +9544,9 @@ static struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
 	/* Acer Aspire 4736Z */
 	{ 0x2a42, 0x1025, 0x0260, quirk_invert_brightness },

+	/* Acer Aspire 5336 */
+	{ 0x2a42, 0x1025, 0x048a, quirk_invert_brightness },
+
 	/* Dell XPS13 HD Sandy Bridge */
 	{ 0x0116, 0x1028, 0x052e, quirk_no_pcm_pwm_enable },
 	/* Dell XPS13 HD and XPS13 FHD Ivy Bridge */
--
1.9.1





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