[PATCH] Rationalise ACPI backlight implementation

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Tue Dec 25 2007 - 21:05:15 EST


The sysfs backlight class provides no mechanism for querying the
acceptable brightness for a backlight. The ACPI spec states that values
are only valid if they are reported as available by the firmware. Since
we can't provide that information to userspace, instead collapse the
range to the number of actual values that can be set.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index 521645e..12b2adb 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -296,18 +296,26 @@ static int acpi_video_device_set_state(struct acpi_video_device *device, int sta
static int acpi_video_get_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd)
{
unsigned long cur_level;
+ int i;
struct acpi_video_device *vd =
(struct acpi_video_device *)bl_get_data(bd);
acpi_video_device_lcd_get_level_current(vd, &cur_level);
- return (int) cur_level;
+ for (i=2; i<vd->brightness->count; i++) {
+ if (vd->brightness->levels[i] == cur_level)
+ /* The first two entries are special - see page 575
+ of the ACPI spec 3.0 */
+ return i-2;
+ }
+ return 0;
}

static int acpi_video_set_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd)
{
- int request_level = bd->props.brightness;
+ int request_level = bd->props.brightness+2;
struct acpi_video_device *vd =
(struct acpi_video_device *)bl_get_data(bd);
- acpi_video_device_lcd_set_level(vd, request_level);
+ acpi_video_device_lcd_set_level(vd,
+ vd->brightness->levels[request_level]);
return 0;
}

@@ -656,7 +664,6 @@ static void acpi_video_device_find_cap(struct acpi_video_device *device)
kfree(obj);

if (device->cap._BCL && device->cap._BCM && device->cap._BQC && max_level > 0){
- unsigned long tmp;
static int count = 0;
char *name;
name = kzalloc(MAX_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -664,11 +671,10 @@ static void acpi_video_device_find_cap(struct acpi_video_device *device)
return;

sprintf(name, "acpi_video%d", count++);
- acpi_video_device_lcd_get_level_current(device, &tmp);
device->backlight = backlight_device_register(name,
NULL, device, &acpi_backlight_ops);
- device->backlight->props.max_brightness = max_level;
- device->backlight->props.brightness = (int)tmp;
+ device->backlight->props.max_brightness = device->brightness->count-3;
+ device->backlight->props.brightness = acpi_video_get_brightness(device->backlight);
backlight_update_status(device->backlight);

kfree(name);

--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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