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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c index 0972ec0e2eb8..f53ccc680238 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_video.c @@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(report_key_events, static bool device_id_scheme = false; module_param(device_id_scheme, bool, 0444); -static bool only_lcd = false; -module_param(only_lcd, bool, 0444); +static int only_lcd = -1; +module_param(only_lcd, int, 0444); static int register_count; static DEFINE_MUTEX(register_count_mutex); @@ -2136,6 +2136,16 @@ int acpi_video_register(void) goto leave; } + /* + * We're seeing a lot of bogus backlight interfaces on newer machines + * without a LCD such as desktops, servers and HDMI sticks. Checking + * the lcd flag fixes this, so enable this on any machines which are + * win8 ready (where we also prefer the native backlight driver, so + * normally the acpi_video code should not register there anyways). + */ + if (only_lcd == -1) + only_lcd = acpi_osi_is_win8(); + dmi_check_system(video_dmi_table); ret = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_video_bus); |