ACK: [PATCH 0/6][SRU][N] Dell AIO backlight is not working, dell_uart_backlight module is missing
Alessio Faina
alessio.faina at canonical.com
Fri Oct 3 12:48:37 UTC 2025
On Wed, Oct 01, 2025 at 12:39:03PM +0800, AceLan Kao wrote:
> From: "Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan)" <acelan.kao at canonical.com>
>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2083800
>
> [Impact]
> Dell AIO backlight need dell_uart_backlight module, but
> CONFIG_DELL_UART_BACKLIGHT is not enabled on 6.8.
>
> [Fix]
> Enable the option in the kernel config, and also replace the old sauce
> driver with the upstream one.
>
> [Test Case]
> 1. Boot Dell AIO machine to desktop
> 2. The backlight should be controlled through hotkey and/or GUI
>
> [Where problems could occur]
> This series of patches replace the sauce driver with the upstream one.
> The functionality is the same.
>
> Chia-Lin Kao (AceLan) (4):
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: Removed sauce dell-uart-backlight driver
> Revert "UBUNTU: SAUCE: ACPI: video: Dell AIO UART backlight detection"
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: dell_uart_backlight: size_t -> ssize_t
> UBUNTU: [Config] enable CONFIG_DELL_UART_BACKLIGHT
>
> Hans de Goede (2):
> platform/x86: Add new Dell UART backlight driver
> ACPI: video: Add Dell UART backlight controller detection
>
> debian.master/config/annotations | 2 +-
> drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 10 +-
> drivers/platform/x86/dell/Kconfig | 15 +
> .../platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.c | 730 ++++++++----------
> .../platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.h | 41 -
> include/acpi/video.h | 1 +
> 6 files changed, 324 insertions(+), 475 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-uart-backlight.h
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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Acked-by: Alessio Faina <alessio.faina at canonical.com>
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