ACK / APPLIED[Unstable]: [PATCH 0/4][SRU][B][D][E][OEM-B][OEM-OSP1-B] Can't adjust brightness on

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Tue Nov 12 00:06:23 UTC 2019


On Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 02:36:40PM +0800, AceLan Kao wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813877
> 
> [Impact]
> The dell-uart-backlight driver has been loaded, but the backlight is
> controller by graphics driver instead of scalar IC. The old way to
> determinate weather the driver should be loaded is not working anymore,
> since the behavior of scalar command, show firmware version, is not the
> same as old platforms.
> 
> [Fix]
> Using more a reliable command, get_scalar_status, to check if scalar is in
> charge of the AIO backlight.
> For the old platforms which don't have the new command, I add a list to
> list them all and use the old way to determinate the scalar IC.
> 
> [Test]
> Verified on old and new Dell AIO platforms.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> Low. The quirk lists all old platforms which use the old way to check if
> scalar IC is in use. So, it won't change the behavior on old platforms,
> and apply the new method on new platforms.

Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>

Applied to unstable/master, thanks!



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