Re: [REGRESSION] bisected: 7.1rc1 breaks backlight control on Thinkpad T480

[Stefan Seyfried]

Am 15.05.26 um 14:13 schrieb Thorsten Leemhuis:
> On 5/15/26 13:47, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > I found that 7.1rc1 broke the backlight control on my Thinkpad T480.
> > Bisected it to
> >
> > > 40d2f5820951dee818d05c14677277048bd85f9f is the first bad commit
> > > commit 40d2f5820951dee818d05c14677277048bd85f9f
> > > Author: Suraj Kandpal <suraj.kandpal@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Tue Feb 24 08:43:22 2026 +0530
> > >
> > >      drm/i915/backlight: Remove try_vesa_interface
>
> FWIW: Here are two bug reports that contain proposed fixes for what
> might or might not be the issue your face:
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/work_items/16043
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/i915/kernel/-/work_items/16015

Thanks, will look into testing the patches floating around there.

For now, this

 diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c 
b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
 index a8d56ebf06a2..c4ac46559669 100644
 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
 +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_dp_aux_backlight.c
 @@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ int intel_dp_aux_init_backlight_funcs(struct 
intel_connector *connector)
                 return 0;
         }

 -       if (intel_dp_aux_supports_vesa_backlight(connector)) {
 +       if (0 && intel_dp_aux_supports_vesa_backlight(connector)) {
                 drm_dbg_kms(dev, "[CONNECTOR:%d:%s] Using VESA eDP 
backlight controls\n",
                             connector->base.base.id, 
connector->base.name);
                 panel->backlight.funcs = &intel_dp_vesa_bl_funcs;

is enough to get the backlight control on the T480 going again.

I know nothing about that code (obviously), but maybe 
"intel_dp_aux_supports_vesa_backlight()" is wrongly determining VESA 
backlight support on my machine?

--
Stefan Seyfried

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