Re: [PATCH 2/2] platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: allow to use all hotkeys

[Stefan Seyfried]

Hi Hans,

On 21.06.22 11:26, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 6/20/22 20:10, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > Well, the non-working backlight is coming from the i915 driver, but as this is a very old Chipset (i855 GM) I'd rather be happy it works at all instead of complaining ;-)
> > (I have another machine of similar age, hp nc6000 with ati graphics, and there is no way getting it to work somewhat reliably at all)
>
> Ah right, you've got a panasonic + a native intel backlight device.
>
> We are going to need a quirk to (eventually also depending on other changes)
> disable the broken intel backlight device.
>
> But that won't fix the keys issue, at least not without an extra
> quirk just for that.
>
> I wonder if your machine supports the backlight control part of
> the ACPI video bus at all. If not that would explain why it is
> not reporting brightness keys and that would also give us a way
> to solve this without an extra quirk.
>
> And that would actually also avoid the need for a backlight
> quirk too.
>
> Can you pass "acpi_backlight=video" on the kernel commandline
> and see if a /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0 device then
> shows up. If it does _not_ show up then indeed there is no
> ACPI backlight control at all.

Nothing new shows up, just panasonic and intel_backlight as before.

> In that case please give the attached patches a try on top
> of my last series.

they do not fix the brightness keys for me.
I did not have time to put in some debugging and will be traveling for 
the rest of the week, but I'll take the toughbook with me and will try 
to debug this later ;-)

> The acpi_video patch should fix your brightness keys then and

apparently it does not :-(

> the extra panasonic-laptop patch should not make any difference
> for the available /sys/class/backlight devices on your laptop,
> while filtering out the broken panasonic backlight on Kenneth's
> device.

Yes, the panasonic backlight does still work on my machine.

Best regards,

	Stefan
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