The patch titled
Recent Lenovo ThinkPads define a dummy grahpics device, find it and ignore
it
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
recent-lenovo-thinkpads-define-a-dummy-grahpics-device-find-it-and-ignore-it.patch
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Subject: Recent Lenovo ThinkPads define a dummy grahpics device, find it and
ignore it
From: Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I posted this one already and Matthew had some concerns about it:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg09510.html
IMO, this one should still be added to -mm, because:
- The patch itself is correct, it is the function that is called
that must make sure to return the corresponding pci device
- There currently is a bug: Lenovos will register a device for which
no physical device exists.
- That means on these machines HW is addressed/poked
which does not exist -> danger.
- There is no other way to fix up acpi_get_physical_device, than to
just do this change (at least I don't see it). People have to
complain that their device is not found (the message they see in
dmesg is obvious).
Then we can make acpi_get_physical_device more robust, which will
come out as a benefit for other functionality too sooner or later to
be able to rely on getting struct pci in the video (and possibly
other) driver(s).
Recent Lenovo ThinkPads define a dummy grahpics device, find it and ignore it
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
drivers/acpi/video.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff -puN
drivers/acpi/video.c~recent-lenovo-thinkpads-define-a-dummy-grahpics-device-find-it-and-ignore-it
drivers/acpi/video.c
---
a/drivers/acpi/video.c~recent-lenovo-thinkpads-define-a-dummy-grahpics-device-find-it-and-ignore-it
+++ a/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
#include <linux/input.h>
#include <linux/backlight.h>
#include <linux/video_output.h>
+#include <linux/acpi.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <acpi/acpi_bus.h>
@@ -1390,6 +1391,21 @@ acpi_video_bus_get_one_device(struct acp
u32 max_brightness;
int status;
int error;
+ struct device *dev;
+
+
+ /*
+ * Check whether we have really a graphics device physically
+ * in the slot and registered at the system.
+ */
+ dev = acpi_get_physical_device(device->handle);
+ if (!dev) {
+ printk (KERN_DEBUG PREFIX "Video device %s.%s not physically"
+ " connected, ignoring\n", acpi_device_bid(device),
+ device->parent ? acpi_device_bid(device->parent) : "");
+ return -ENODEV;
+ }
+ put_device(dev);
status = acpi_evaluate_integer(device->handle, "_ADR", NULL,
&device_id);
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are
acpi-also-autoload-the-bay-driver-was-forgotten.patch
recent-lenovo-thinkpads-define-a-dummy-grahpics-device-find-it-and-ignore-it.patch
small-acpica-extension-to-be-able-to-store-the-name-of.patch
export-acpi_check_resource_conflict.patch
git-alsa.patch
check-for-acpi-resource-conflicts-in-i2c-bus-drivers.patch
check-for-acpi-resource-conflicts-in-hwmon-drivers.patch
declare-pnp-option-parsing-functions-as-__init.patch
declare-pnp-option-parsing-functions-as-__init-checkpatch-fixes.patch
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