Re: [PATCH] Rationalise ACPI backlight implementation

[Len Brown]

Applied.

thanks,
-Len

On Tuesday 25 December 2007 21:03, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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);
> 
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