From febf2d95a71cd594182e4b3defb0e0ffdfe61482 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Renninger Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:37:56 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Acer-WMI: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger Acked-by: Zhang Rui Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c b/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c index 0532a2de2ce4..94c9f911824e 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c +++ b/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c @@ -1297,6 +1297,12 @@ static int __init acer_wmi_init(void) set_quirks(); + if (!acpi_video_backlight_support() && has_cap(ACER_CAP_BRIGHTNESS)) { + interface->capability &= ~ACER_CAP_BRIGHTNESS; + printk(ACER_INFO "Brightness must be controlled by " + "generic video driver\n"); + } + if (platform_driver_register(&acer_platform_driver)) { printk(ACER_ERR "Unable to register platform driver.\n"); goto error_platform_register; -- 2.30.2