[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "acer-wmi: Add acpi_backlight=video quirk for the Acer KAV80" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

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

    acer-wmi: Add acpi_backlight=video quirk for the Acer KAV80

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.

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

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From a63b972a7293181f21e4b74dbc102e158b6f51fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:06:38 +0200
Subject: acer-wmi: Add acpi_backlight=video quirk for the Acer KAV80

commit 183fd8fcd7f8afb7ac5ec68f83194872f9fecc84 upstream.

The acpi-video backlight interface on the Acer KAV80 is broken, and worse
it causes the entire machine to slow down significantly after a suspend/resume.

Blacklist it, and use the acer-wmi backlight interface instead. Note that
the KAV80 is somewhat unique in that it is the only Acer model where we
fall back to acer-wmi after blacklisting, rather then using the native
(e.g. intel) backlight driver. This is done because there is no native
backlight interface on this model.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1128309
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart at linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
index bbf78b2d6d93..5eeddc00f210 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
@@ -578,6 +578,17 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_vendor_dmi_table[] = {
 			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Aspire 5741"),
 		},
 	},
+	{
+		/*
+		 * Note no video_set_backlight_video_vendor, we must use the
+		 * acer interface, as there is no native backlight interface.
+		 */
+		.ident = "Acer KAV80",
+		.matches = {
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Acer"),
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "KAV80"),
+		},
+	},
 	{}
 };

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