[trusty] ACPI / video: Change the default for video.use_native_backlight to 1

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Jun 17 11:40:30 UTC 2014


On 06/16/2014 10:55 PM, Yidi Lin wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1250401
> 
> This patch is committed in v3.16-rc1 which fixes win8 backlight issue.
> I had verified this patch for bug #1250401.
> 
> This patch also fixes bug #1284030.
> 
> commit 751109aad5834375ca9ed0dcfcd85a00cbf872b5
> Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
> Date:   Thu Jun 5 22:47:35 2014 +0200
> 
>     ACPI / video: Change the default for video.use_native_backlight to 1
> 
>     Now that we're hoping to have resolved all of the problems with
>     video.use_native_backlight=1, make that the default at last.
> 
>     Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=139716088401106&w=2
>     Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
> 

While this patch may fix back light issues for a Dell Inspiron 5737, how
do you know changing the default won't break other platforms ? I imagine
there was a bit of work that went into back light support between 3.13
and 3.16-rc1, so I'm not sure flipping the default in 3.13 is sufficient.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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