On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 13:57:06 +0100, Grant Likely <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Some platforms (for instance MacbookPros) have custom backlight drivers >> and don't use the integrated i915 backlight control. This patch adds a >> quirk to disable registering the intel backlight when unused on a >> platform. >> >> Tested on MacbookPro8,3. Without this patch both the intel_backlight and >> gmux_backlight devices get registered and userspace doesn't know which >> it should use. > > Userspace is informed throught the backlight/type property.
Perhaps, but userspace (Ubuntu) isn't doing anything with it, and it still remains that it makes no sense whatsoever to register a backlight device that doesn't exist. g. > -Chris > > -- > Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
