ACK: [PATCH v2 0/1][SRU][Bionic][OEM-B]Dell new AIO requires a new uart backlight driver
Kleber Souza
kleber.souza at canonical.com
Fri Jul 27 15:52:15 UTC 2018
On 07/17/18 09:13, AceLan Kao wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1727235
>
> [Impact]
> New Dell AIO platforms requires a driver that can communicate with the
> scalar IC FW through UART interface to get and set the brightness level.
>
> [Test]
> Verified on some new Dell AIO machines and confirmed it works.
>
> [Fix]
> Write a new driver to handle this task.
>
> [Regression Potential]
> Low, it's a new driver for new interface.
>
> [Misc]
> Upstream maintainer ask use to re-implement this driver by the new
> interface, serdev, but serdev seems doesn't work with ACPI, so submit
> this driver as Ubuntu sauce patch for now. I'll try re-write it when I'm
> available.
>
> AceLan Kao (1):
> UBUNTU: updateconfigs for Dell UART backlight driver
>
> debian.oem/config/config.common.ubuntu | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
I didn't do a close review as Colin did on the first version of the
patch, but this driver seems to be safe to be included and confined enough.
Acked-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza at canonical.com>
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