[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Patch "ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP Pavilion g6" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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 Pavilion g6

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

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>From a0b3ec09387a68ecb1b501eaf77785e84b15d5d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ash Willis <ashwillis.kernel at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 01:27:59 +0000
Subject: ACPI / video: ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP Pavilion g6

commit 780a6ec640a3fed671fc2c40e4dd30c03eca3ac3 upstream.

This patch addresses kernel bug 56661. BIOS reports an incorrect
backlight value, causing the driver to switch off the backlight
completely during startup. This patch ignores the incorrect value from
BIOS.

References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56661
Signed-off-by: Ash Willis <ashwillis at programmer.net>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/acpi/video.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c
index afc2a8d..545246f 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -457,6 +457,14 @@ static struct dmi_system_id video_dmi_table[] __initdata = {
 	},
 	{
 	 .callback = video_ignore_initial_backlight,
+	 .ident = "HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC",
+	 .matches = {
+		 DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Hewlett-Packard"),
+		 DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "HP Pavilion g6 Notebook PC"),
+		},
+	},
+	{
+	 .callback = video_ignore_initial_backlight,
 	 .ident = "HP 1000 Notebook PC",
 	 .matches = {
 		DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Hewlett-Packard"),
--
1.8.1.2