Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-15 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Keith, On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 09:34 -0700, Kamal Mostafa wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 06:52 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:11:33 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim sali...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Matthew's last patch from July 16th applies without modification on top

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-15 Thread Keith Packard
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:38:34 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim sali...@fedoraproject.org wrote: any update on the merge? I've not seen it anywhere on It's merged locally; I'm struggling with an SSC bug that's sitting on top of drm-intel-fixes and needs to either be fixed or reverted. In any case,

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-12 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
Hi Keith all, On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 15:28 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:36:38 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim sali...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Since there's no known regression introduced by Matthew's patch, could it be merged? Feel free to add a I've had to amend

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-12 Thread Keith Packard
On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:11:33 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim sali...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Matthew's last patch from July 16th applies without modification on top of Linux 3.0 and 3.1-rc1, and applies with some offsets on top of drm-intel-fixes. I must have skipped right over it somehow.

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-12 Thread Kamal Mostafa
On Fri, 2011-08-12 at 06:52 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:11:33 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim sali...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Matthew's last patch from July 16th applies without modification on top of Linux 3.0 and 3.1-rc1 [...] From

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-11 Thread Michel Alexandre Salim
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Ali Gholami Rudi aliqr...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:53:18 -0700 Keith Packard kei...@keithp.com wrote: Matthew -- shall I just merge the old patch? Or did you want to make some changes? I have a

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-11 Thread Keith Packard
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:36:38 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim sali...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Since there's no known regression introduced by Matthew's patch, could it be merged? Feel free to add a I've had to amend the patch a bit to get it to apply on top of drm-intel-fixes; anyone care to

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-11 Thread Kamal Mostafa
On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 15:28 -0700, Keith Packard wrote: I've had to amend the patch a bit to get it to apply on top of drm-intel-fixes; anyone care to take a look and see if it still looks reasonable (and/or actually works?) Hi Keith- I confirm that this does indeed work (Dell Studio 1558).

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-10 Thread Keith Packard
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:14:09 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim sali...@fedoraproject.org wrote: FYI, I'm using that on top of Linux 3.0 and 3.1-rc1 and it still works fine. Matthew -- shall I just merge the old patch? Or did you want to make some changes? -- keith.pack...@intel.com

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-10 Thread Andrew Morton
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:53:18 -0700 Keith Packard kei...@keithp.com wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:14:09 +0200, Michel Alexandre Salim sali...@fedoraproject.org wrote: FYI, I'm using that on top of Linux 3.0 and 3.1-rc1 and it still works fine. Matthew -- shall I just merge the old

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-10 Thread Ali Gholami Rudi
Andrew Morton a...@linux-foundation.org wrote: On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 07:53:18 -0700 Keith Packard kei...@keithp.com wrote: Matthew -- shall I just merge the old patch? Or did you want to make some changes? I have a note here that Ali Gholami Rudi aliqr...@gmail.com had issues with the

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-08 Thread Keith Packard
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:54:22 -0700, Kamal Mostafa ka...@canonical.com wrote: So what happened to that patch? Did it get lost or is it stuck somewhere? I humbly ask that it be re-reviewed and pushed upstream. Afraid it was forgotten -- Matthew, is this patch still useful? --

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-08 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 02:27:46PM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:54:22 -0700, Kamal Mostafa ka...@canonical.com wrote: So what happened to that patch? Did it get lost or is it stuck somewhere? I humbly ask that it be re-reviewed and pushed upstream. Afraid it was

Re: [Intel-gfx] i915 native backlight never got merged

2011-08-08 Thread Keith Packard
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 22:31:40 +0100, Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote: Yup. There's a small set of systems that appear to provide no firmware control mechanism. There were a few comments in that old thread about the patch as submitted; is there an updated version? --