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Thomas Renninger c3d6de698c ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers 
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with
latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and
switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi,
thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi).

Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the
brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad.

This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before
driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up
patches.

"acpi_backlight=vendor"
	Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight.
"acpi_backlight=video" (default)
	Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07 23:57:55 -05:00
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acpi ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers 2008-11-07 23:57:55 -05:00
amba
ata libata: mask off DET when restoring SControl for detach 2008-11-04 01:08:33 -05:00
atm
auxdisplay
base sysfs: Fix return values for sysdev_store_{ulong,int} 2008-10-29 15:03:49 -07:00
block cciss: fix regression firmware not displayed in procfs 2008-11-06 15:41:18 -08:00
bluetooth bpa10x: free sk_buff with kfree_skb 2008-10-31 00:40:19 -07:00
cdrom gdrom: Fix compile error 2008-10-28 17:46:02 +09:00
char vt: incomplete initialization of vc_tab_stop 2008-11-06 15:41:17 -08:00
clocksource
connector
cpufreq
cpuidle Merge branch 'v28-range-hrtimers-for-linus-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-10-23 10:53:02 -07:00
crypto
dca
dio
dma Merge branch 'i7300_idle' into release 2008-10-25 04:07:44 -04:00
edac edac: fix enabling of polling cell module 2008-10-30 11:38:46 -07:00
eisa
firewire firewire: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name() 2008-10-31 08:48:25 +01:00
firmware trivial: dmi_scan typo 2008-11-07 08:25:43 -08:00
gpio
gpu Merge branch 'io-mappings-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-11-03 10:15:40 -08:00
hid saner FASYNC handling on file close 2008-11-01 09:49:46 -07:00
hwmon hwmon: applesmc: add support for iMac 8 2008-11-06 15:41:17 -08:00
i2c i2c-s3c2410: Correct use of ! and & 2008-10-30 15:55:47 +01:00
ide ide-gd: re-get capacity on revalidate 2008-11-02 21:40:10 +01:00
idle i7300_idle: Cleanup based review comments 2008-10-24 12:55:14 -04:00
ieee1394 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 2008-11-06 15:55:34 -08:00
infiniband saner FASYNC handling on file close 2008-11-01 09:49:46 -07:00
input saner FASYNC handling on file close 2008-11-01 09:49:46 -07:00
isdn
leds remove unused #include <version.h>'s 2008-11-01 09:50:12 -07:00
lguest
macintosh
mca
md md: linear: Fix a division by zero bug for very small arrays. 2008-11-06 19:41:24 +11:00
media
memstick
message trivial: MPT fusion - remove long dead code 2008-11-07 08:25:43 -08:00
mfd missing dependencies on HAVE_CLK in drivers/mfd 2008-11-01 12:40:38 -07:00
misc remove unused #include <version.h>'s 2008-11-01 09:50:12 -07:00
mmc [ARM] 5322/1: Fix fastpath issue in mmci.c 2008-10-28 00:00:42 +00:00
mtd Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2008-11-06 15:43:13 -08:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-11-06 16:44:23 -08:00
nubus
of OF-device: Don't overwrite numa_node in device registration 2008-10-31 16:12:01 +11:00
oprofile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rric/oprofile 2008-10-23 10:05:40 -07:00
parisc
parport Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6 2008-10-30 12:52:53 -07:00
pci PCI: fix range check on mmapped sysfs resource files 2008-11-03 14:41:16 -08:00
pcmcia Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-10-31 16:18:02 +09:00
pnp drivers: remove duplicated #include 2008-11-04 08:18:19 -08:00
power
ps3 powerpc/ps3: Fix compile error in ps3-lpm.c 2008-11-05 19:59:08 +11:00
rapidio
regulator regulator: da903x regulator bug fix 2008-10-30 15:31:35 +00:00
rtc rtc-cmos: fix boot log message 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
s390 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-10-30 11:46:28 -07:00
sbus drivers: remove duplicated #include 2008-11-04 08:18:19 -08:00
scsi saner FASYNC handling on file close 2008-11-01 09:49:46 -07:00
serial atmel_serial: keep clock off when it's not needed 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
sh
sn
spi
ssb
staging drivers: remove duplicated #include 2008-11-04 08:18:19 -08:00
tc
telephony saner FASYNC handling on file close 2008-11-01 09:49:46 -07:00
thermal
uio saner FASYNC handling on file close 2008-11-01 09:49:46 -07:00
usb saner FASYNC handling on file close 2008-11-01 09:49:46 -07:00
uwb
video fbdev: fix fb_compat_ioctl() deadlocks 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
virtio
w1
watchdog SAM9 watchdog: update for moved headers 2008-11-06 15:41:20 -08:00
xen drivers: remove duplicated #include 2008-11-04 08:18:19 -08:00
zorro
Kconfig regulator: Build on non-ARM platforms 2008-10-28 21:47:17 +00:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dvrabel/uwb 2008-10-26 16:35:46 -07:00