[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "acer-wmi: Add Aspire 5741 to video_vendor_dmi_table" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Nov 25 20:35:21 UTC 2014


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

    acer-wmi: Add Aspire 5741 to video_vendor_dmi_table

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.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-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt12.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 6e9a4622993f80b6ddfa65b06cec643c8ccafa45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2014 10:48:03 +0200
Subject: acer-wmi: Add Aspire 5741 to video_vendor_dmi_table

commit 9404cd95507de0a61f2a000fbd76748a9cae33b4 upstream.

The Aspire 5741 has broken acpi-video backlight control, so add it to the
quirk table.

References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1012674
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
index c9076bd..3990c79 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
@@ -572,6 +572,14 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_vendor_dmi_table[] = {
 			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Aspire 5750"),
 		},
 	},
+	{
+		.callback = video_set_backlight_video_vendor,
+		.ident = "Acer Aspire 5741",
+		.matches = {
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Acer"),
+			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Aspire 5741"),
+		},
+	},
 	{}
 };

--
1.9.1





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