[PATCH] ACPI/backlight: Force backlight native for Clevo NL5xRU and NL5xNU

From: Werner Sembach
Date: Tue Mar 15 2022 - 15:02:41 EST


Clevo NL5xRU and NL5xNU/TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen1 and Gen2 have both a working
native and video interface. However the default detection mechanism first
registers the video interface before unregistering it again and switching
to the native interface during boot. This results in a dangling SBIOS
request for backlight change for some reason, causing the backlight to
switch to ~2% once per boot on the first power cord connect or disconnect
event. Setting the native interface explicitly circumvents this buggy
behaviour by avoiding the unregistering process.

Signed-off-by: Werner Sembach <wse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 75 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
index 4f64713e9917..becc198e4c22 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
@@ -415,6 +415,81 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_detect_dmi_table[] = {
DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "GA503"),
},
},
+ /*
+ * Clevo NL5xRU and NL5xNU/TUXEDO Aura 15 Gen1 and Gen2 have both a
+ * working native and video interface. However the default detection
+ * mechanism first registers the video interface before unregistering
+ * it again and switching to the native interface during boot. This
+ * results in a dangling SBIOS request for backlight change for some
+ * reason, causing the backlight to switch to ~2% once per boot on the
+ * first power cord connect or disconnect event. Setting the native
+ * interface explicitly circumvents this buggy behaviour, by avoiding
+ * the unregistering process.
+ */
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "Clevo NL5xRU",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "TUXEDO"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "NL5xRU"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "Clevo NL5xRU",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "SchenkerTechnologiesGmbH"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "NL5xRU"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "Clevo NL5xRU",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Notebook"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "NL5xRU"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "Clevo NL5xRU",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "TUXEDO"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "AURA1501"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "Clevo NL5xRU",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "TUXEDO"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "EDUBOOK1502"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "Clevo NL5xNU",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "TUXEDO"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "NL5xNU"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "Clevo NL5xNU",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "SchenkerTechnologiesGmbH"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "NL5xNU"),
+ },
+ },
+ {
+ .callback = video_detect_force_native,
+ .ident = "Clevo NL5xNU",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Notebook"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "NL5xNU"),
+ },
+ },

/*
* Desktops which falsely report a backlight and which our heuristics
--
2.25.1