Re: [PATCH] acpi/video: Add Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13 to acpi video detect blacklist

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 14.10.13 15:48, Matthew Garrett (matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 17:36 +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, still not getting this. How should this ever work if the intel
> > video driver is compiled as kmod? That means that it isn't clear at all
> > when the kmod is going to be loaded or if it is loaded at all, you
> > cannot delay the registration of the acpi backlight that long, since the
> > time you'd have to wait is basically unbounded...
> 
> See the intel_opregion_present() code in drivers/acpi/video.c. The ACPI
> driver won't bind to Intel hardware until i915 indicates that it should
> do so.

Hmm, OK, so this means that the acpi backlight will check whether i915
hw is around, and not whether the i915 driver is actually loaded? That
would work for me I guess. Thanks.

That means on win8 machines with win8 graphics there'll always be a
single backlight device in userspace only?

Lennart

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