linux-kernel - Re: keyboard backlight max_brightness bug on Dell Latitude E6410

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Message-ID: <20171002131540.GE10938@pali>
Date:   Mon, 2 Oct 2017 15:15:40 +0200
From:   Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:     gabriel@...gnowsys.com
Cc:     andy.shevchenko@...il.com, gabriel@...gnowsys.com,
        gabriele.mzt@...il.com, dvhart@...radead.org, andy@...radead.org,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mario.Limonciello@...l.com
Subject: Re: keyboard backlight max_brightness bug on Dell Latitude E6410

On Monday 02 October 2017 13:06:46 Mario.Limonciello@...l.com wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pali Rohár [mailto:pali.rohar@...il.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 2, 2017 6:53 AM
> > To: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
> > Cc: Gabriel M. Elder <gabriel@...gnowsys.com>; Gabriele Mazzotta
> > <gabriele.mzt@...il.com>; Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@...l.com>;
> > Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>; Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>;
> > platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: keyboard backlight max_brightness bug on Dell Latitude E6410
> > 
> > On Friday 29 September 2017 18:19:59 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > >> FYI, latest update and info relating to
> > > >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196913
> > >
> > > Quick solution is to apply DMI to that.
> > 
> > It is only the Dell Latitude E6410 affected?
> > 
> > Mario, do you have any information about that API from Dell?
> > 
> > --
> > Pali Rohár
> > pali.rohar@...il.com
> 
> Pali,
> 
> I believe this particular API shouldn't have changed over generations, so it's 
> likely something that needs to be quirked for that generation.  
> I haven't had a chance to check on this yet in detail though.
> For now could you guys quirk this one and if I find out there was something
> more systemic we can undo the quirk and do something more broad.
> 
> Thanks,

Ok! Gabriel, can you provide us your DMI information about your machine?

They are included in following files:
/sys/class/dmi/id/sys_vendor
/sys/class/dmi/id/product_name

Beware that they may contain whitespace characters and it is important.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com