Re: [FIXED][PATCH] dell-laptop: Fix backlight detection

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Jul 18 2018 - 06:23:17 EST


On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Damien ThÃbault <damien@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Fix return code check for "max brightness" ACPI call.
>
> The dell laptop ACPI video brightness control is not present on dell
> laptops anymore, but was present in older kernel versions.
>
> The code that checks the return value is incorrect since the SMM
> refactoring.
>
> The old code was:
> if (buffer->output[0] == 0)
>
> Which was changed to:
> ret = dell_send_request(...)
> if (ret)
>
> However, dell_send_request() will return 0 if buffer->output[0] == 0,
> so we must change the check to:
> if (ret == 0)
>
> This issue was found on a Dell M4800 laptop, and the fix tested on it
> as well.
>

I have pushed this to my review and testing queue, thanks!

But I'm going to push this to Linus this week since it's definitely
stable material.

> Fixes: 549b4930f057 ("dell-smbios: Introduce dispatcher for SMM calls")
> Signed-off-by: Damien ThÃbault <damien@xxxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Damien ThÃbault <damien@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> index f1fa8612db40..06978c14c83b 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> @@ -2185,7 +2185,7 @@ static int __init dell_init(void)
> dell_fill_request(&buffer, token->location, 0, 0, 0);
> ret = dell_send_request(&buffer,
> CLASS_TOKEN_READ, SELECT_TOKEN_AC);
> - if (ret)
> + if (ret == 0)
> max_intensity = buffer.output[3];
> }
>
> --
> 2.18.0
>



--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko