Re: [PATCH] thinkpad_acpi: don't yell on unsupported brightness interfaces

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015, at 08:46, David Herrmann wrote:
> The thinkpad_acpi driver currently emits error messages on unsupported
> brightness interfaces, giving the impression that someone will implement
> those. However, this error is spit out on nearly every thinkpad in
> production since 2 years now. Furthermore, the backlight interfaces on
> those devices are supported by the i915 driver just fine.
> 
> Downgrade the error message to a normal pr_info() and stop telling people
> to report it to IBM.

IBM?  Those reports go directly to me.

> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> index 131dd74..0bed473 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c
> @@ -6459,8 +6459,7 @@ static void __init
> tpacpi_detect_brightness_capabilities(void)
>  		pr_info("detected a 8-level brightness capable ThinkPad\n");
>  		break;
>  	default:
> -               pr_err("Unsupported brightness interface, "
> -                      "please contact %s\n", TPACPI_MAIL);
> +               pr_info("Unsupported brightness interface\n");
>  		tp_features.bright_unkfw = 1;
>  		bright_maxlvl = b - 1;
>  	}
> -- 
> 2.6.1
> 
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