On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 02:05:42PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > From: Josh Boyer <[email protected]> > > When the keyboard backlight support was originally added, the commit said > to default it to on with a 10 second timeout. That actually wasn't the > case, as the default value is commented out for the kbd_backlight parameter. > Because it is a static variable, it gets set to 0 by default without some > other form of initialization. > > However, it seems the function to set the value wasn't actually called > immediately, so whatever state the keyboard was in initially would remain. > Then commit df410d522410e67660 was introduced during the 2.6.39 timeframe to > immediately set whatever value was present (as well as attempt to > restore/reset the state on module removal or resume). That seems to have > now forced the light off immediately when the module is loaded unless > the option kbd_backlight=1 is specified. > > Let's enable it by default again (for the first time). This should solve > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728478 > > Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <[email protected]> > Acked-by: Mattia Dongili <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <[email protected]> > --- > Compile tested on latest Debian 3.2, got shipped in Fedora 15 3.2. > > drivers/platform/x86/sony-laptop.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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