Re: [V2 PATCH 2/2] drivers-gpu-drm-i915-invert-backlight-brightness

From: Keith Packard
Date: Wed Mar 14 2012 - 22:42:19 EST


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On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:35:46 +0100, Carsten Emde <C.Emde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This patch adds a module parameter to invert the backlight brightness
> value before writing and after reading which makes the affected notebook
> usable again.

You should add a quirk for this and set things up so that your machine
automatically gets the right value; when we find more machines that do
this, we can add them so that more people will get a system that 'just
works'.

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