linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] i915: Don't provide ACPI backlight interface if firmware expects Windows 8

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Date:	Sat, 15 Jun 2013 22:35:34 +0200
From:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@...el.com>,
	"linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@...onical.com>,
	"Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@...il.com>,
	"daniel.vetter@...ll.ch" <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	"intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org" <intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Aaron Lu <aaron.lwe@...il.com>,
	Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] i915: Don't provide ACPI backlight interface if
 firmware expects Windows 8

On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 10:27:06PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, June 15, 2013 08:29:42 PM Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > So to me it looks like the discussion is going in circles a bit, hence let
> > me drop my maintainer-opinion here:
> > 
> > 1. Matthew's patch series here looks reasonable, and if it fixes a bunch
> > of systems (which it seems to) it has my Ack and imo should go in. If acpi
> > maintainers can smash their Ack onto the acpi parts I'd very much like to
> > merge this into drm-intel-next, that should give us the most coverage for
> > intel systems.
> > 
> > Len, Rafael, are you ok with the acpi part of this and merging it through
> > drm-intel-next?
> 
> It has to go through the ACPI tree because of the ACPICA patch that needs to
> be synchronized with the ACPICA upstream.  Sorry.

No problem, since we're pretty close to the merge window that would have
at most resulted in a few more weeks of testing in i915 trees anyway. -rc
kernels should still give us plenty of time to catch fallout, if there is
any.

> That said, I'm going to take this patchset.

Thanks, Daniel
-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
+41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch
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