[Intrepid] SRU: Backport fix for handling the brightness control on acer-wmi
manoj.iyer at canonical.com
manoj.iyer at canonical.com
Mon May 11 19:38:00 UTC 2009
ACK
Cheers
--- manjo
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Stefan Bader wrote:
> SRU justification:
>
> Impact: With the introduction of the upstream acpi backlight handling we
> introduced a inverse check which causes the acer-wmi driver only to be active
> if the acpi driver is present.
>
> Fix: Invert the check.
>
> Testcase: Without acpi support on acer laptops, there is no backlight control
> device.
>
> Note: there still seems to be another problem with the acer-wmi interface in
> general but this is definitely a required step to the solution.
>
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