Re: [PATCH] platform: fix samsung brightness min/max calculations

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed May 11 2011 - 12:19:49 EST


On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 02:47:49PM +1000, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2011 08:39:08 Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 06:55:50PM +1000, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > Not sure of the "bump" process, so I'll just go over each part of the
> > > patch.
> > >
> > > Note that all the changes only affect the sabi_config where
> > > min_brightness is 1 so you might not see in difference on your hardware.
> >
> > This isn't needed anymore due to your other patch superseeding it,
> > right?
>
> Actually, this one is irrelevant to the nc210/nc110 support as that laptop
> uses the "SwSmi@" sabi. It was just something I noticed while learning the
> code. The miscalculations will only affect any laptops that use the "SECLINUX"
> sabi but I tested it by setting min_brightness to 2 for my laptop.

That's wierd, as that is the type of laptop I have here and it seems to
work just fine for me as-is.

> The patch doesn't apply cleanly on top of the nc210/nc110 patch though as they
> both modify set_brightness(). It might apply with a higher fuzz factor as the
> changes don't actually clash. Should I redo the patch?

Please do.

thanks,

greg k-h
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