From patchwork Mon Jun 10 22:04:33 2013 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 250386 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29DF52C008F for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:05:14 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UmAD5-0008TN-9d; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:05:07 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1UmACa-0008Gx-Qt for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:04:36 +0000 Received: from c-67-160-231-42.hsd1.ca.comcast.net ([67.160.231.42] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UmACa-00009M-3d; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:04:36 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1UmACX-0003N6-Uh; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:04:33 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: Alex Hung Subject: [ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP m4" has been added to staging queue Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 15:04:33 -0700 Message-Id: <1370901873-12927-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 X-Extended-Stable: 3.8 Cc: Kamal Mostafa , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP m4 to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.3. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ From 24ff13c575fa15afc72e09a61eca0f468e1a74cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Hung Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 02:05:09 +0000 Subject: ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP m4 commit fedbe9bc6fd3e14b1ffbb3dac407777ac4a3650c upstream. On HP m4 lapops, BIOS reports minimum backlight on boot and causes backlight to dim completely. This ignores the initial backlight values and set to max brightness. References: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1184501 Signed-off-by: Alex Hung Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/acpi/video.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) -- 1.8.1.2 diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c index a6e1a4d..afc2a8d 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c @@ -463,6 +463,14 @@ static struct dmi_system_id video_dmi_table[] __initdata = { DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "HP 1000 Notebook PC"), }, }, + { + .callback = video_ignore_initial_backlight, + .ident = "HP Pavilion m4", + .matches = { + DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Hewlett-Packard"), + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "HP Pavilion m4 Notebook PC"), + }, + }, {} };