Re: [PATCH 2/2] acer-wmi: add Acer Aspire 5750G to video vendor listbut keep acpi video driver

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Apr 23 2013 - 00:04:24 EST


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 08:39:14PM +0800, Chun-Yi Lee wrote:
> From: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
>
> After Andrzej's testing, we found the acpi backlight methods broken on Acer
> Aspire 5750G but the i915 backlight control works when we set to vendor mode.
> And, we still want to keep the acpi/video driver for transfer acpi event to key
> event but not unregister whole acpi/video driver.
>
> This patch introduced a new capability flag is ACER_CAP_KEEP_VIDEO_KEY, it
> indicates the machine works fine with acpi/video driver for key event but want
> to unregister the backlight interface of acpi/video.
>
> Reference: bko#35622
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35622
>
> Tested-by: Andrzej Krentosz <endrjux@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Corentin Chary <corentincj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> index c9076bd..2a02409 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c
> @@ -207,6 +207,7 @@ struct hotkey_function_type_aa {
> #define ACER_CAP_BRIGHTNESS (1<<3)
> #define ACER_CAP_THREEG (1<<4)
> #define ACER_CAP_ACCEL (1<<5)
> +#define ACER_CAP_KEEP_VIDEO_KEY (1<<6)
> #define ACER_CAP_ANY (0xFFFFFFFF)
>
> /*
> @@ -539,6 +540,15 @@ static int video_set_backlight_video_vendor(const struct dmi_system_id *d)
> return 0;
> }
>
> +static int video_set_backlight_video_vendor_keep_acpi_video(
> + const struct dmi_system_id *d)
> +{
> + video_set_backlight_video_vendor(d);
> + interface->capability |= ACER_CAP_KEEP_VIDEO_KEY;
> + pr_info("Keep acpi video driver for emit keycode against backlight change\n");

Huh?

"Keeping acpi video driver active to emit backlight brightness change
key events"?

Thanks.

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Dmitry
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