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[ Upstream commit 5928c281524fe451114e04f1dfa11246a37e859f ] We're seeing a lot of bogus backlight interfaces on newer machines without a LCD such as desktops, servers and HDMI sticks. This causes userspace to show a non-functional brightness slider in e.g. the GNOME3 system menu, which is undesirable. And, in general, we should simply just not register a non functional backlight interface. Checking the LCD flag causes the bogus acpi_video backlight interfaces to go away (on the machines this was tested on). This change sets the lcd_only option by default on any machines which are Win8-ready, to fix this. This is not entirely without a risk of regressions, but video_detect.c already prefers native-backlight interfaces over the acpi_video one on Win8-ready machines, calling acpi_video_unregister_backlight() as soon as a native interface shows up. This is done because the ACPI backlight interface often is broken on Win8-ready machines, because win8 does not seem to actually use it. So in practice we already end up not registering the ACPI backlight interface on (most) Win8-ready machines with a LCD panel, thus this change does not change anything for (most) machines with a LCD panel and on machines without a LCD panel we actually don't want to register any backlight interfaces. This has been tested on the following machines and fixes a bogus backlight interface showing up there: - Desktop with an Asrock B150M Pro4S/D3 m.b. using i5-6500 builtin gfx - Intel Compute Stick STK1AW32SC - Meegopad T08 HDMI stick Bogus backlight interfaces have also been reported on: - Desktop with Asus H87I-Plus m.b. - Desktop with ASRock B75M-ITX m.b. - Desktop with Gigabyte Z87-D3HP m.b. - Dell PowerEdge T20 desktop Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097436 Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133327 Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133329 Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1133646 Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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