Can you apply the following diff and tell me what the debug printf says
when you push the brightness buttons before and after suspend?
Index: acpithinkpad.c
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RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/acpi/acpithinkpad.c,v
retrieving revision 1.44
diff -u -p -r1.44 acpithinkpad.c
--- acpithinkpad.c 24 Apr 2015 14:44:17 -0000 1.44
+++ acpithinkpad.c 15 Jul 2015 01:37:17 -0000
@@ -304,6 +304,8 @@ thinkpad_hotkey(struct aml_node *node, i
if (aml_evalinteger(sc->sc_acpi, sc->sc_devnode, "MHKP",
0, NULL, &event))
break;
+ printf("%s: handling event 0x%03llx\n",
+ DEVNAME(sc), event);
if (event == 0)
break;