Re: [PATCH] acpi video: force native for Apple MacbookPro9,2

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 8/6/24 10:08 PM, Esther Shimanovich wrote:
> It used to be that the MacbookPro9,2 used its native intel backlight
> device until the following commit was introduced:
> commit b1d36e73cc1c ("drm/i915: Don't register backlight when another
> backlight should be used (v2)")
> This commit forced this model to use its firmware acpi_video backlight
> device instead.
> 
> That worked fine until an additional commit was added:
> commit 92714006eb4d ("drm/i915/backlight: Do not bump min brightness
> to max on enable")
> That commit uncovered a bug in the MacbookPro 9,2's acpi_video
> backlight firmware; the backlight does not come back up after resume.
> 
> Add DMI quirk to select the working native intel interface instead
> so that the backlight successfully comes back up after resume.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Esther Shimanovich <eshimanovich@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, patch looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>

Regards,

Hans



> ---
>  drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
> index c11cbe5b6eaa..2d377414f873 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c
> @@ -547,6 +547,14 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_detect_dmi_table[] = {
>  		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "MacBookAir9,1"),
>  		},
>  	},
> +	{
> +	 .callback = video_detect_force_native,
> +	 /* Apple MacBook Pro 9,2 */
> +	 .matches = {
> +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Apple Inc."),
> +		DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "MacBookPro9,2"),
> +		},
> +	},
>  	{
>  	 /* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1217249 */
>  	 .callback = video_detect_force_native,
> 
> ---
> base-commit: d9ef02e56f0fd3668b6d7cb17f9399ea53f12edd
> change-id: 20240806-acpi-video-quirk-f1c9f01f07d9
> 
> Best regards,