Re: [Intel-gfx] Linux 3.11-rc2 [backlight] [ASUS N56VZ]

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jul 24 2013 - 17:05:46 EST


On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I think a i915 module option should be doable, otoh people seem to have a
> viable workaround by setting a different acpi os version already.

At least the original claim was that if you set a non-windows8 acpi os
version, you hit other bugs..

But yeah, if we just do a plain revert, that may be the only option
for the people for whom the current (to-be-reverted) patches made
things work.

Linus
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