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Bug#702188: src:linux: [3.6 -> 3.7 regression] : Brightness control became ineffective



On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 22:09 +0200, Vincent Blut wrote:
> Le samedi 19 octobre 2013 à 18:49 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> > On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 19:20 +0200, Vincent Blut wrote:
[...]
> > > Finally I need to find time to bisect to know which commit fixed this
> > > stuff because there are a lot of heated discussions around the backlight
> > > control interfaces, especially around the ASUS UX31A¹ that I'm using.
> > > 
> > > ¹https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cb7a386c6c25e85c2710cdb1a498a73794cda660 [merged in 3.12-rc1]
> > > 
> > > To me this commit becomes, de facto, useless because the kernel seems to
> > > correctly falls back to the Intel backlight control interface but I may
> > > be wrong! 
> > > 
> > > Ben, sorry to bother you, I was thinking that you might have cherry
> > > picked commit cb7a386c6c25 in 3.11-1~exp1, is this the case?
> > 
> > I haven't cherry-picked this change, and it has not been included in a
> > 3.11.y stable update (yet).
> 
> Ok, thanks a lot Ben for your time!
> 
> Btw, do you know if linux-acpi guys are reluctant to receive a bug
> report from a distro specific BTS, because I'm tempted to Cc them?

I think that would be fine, if there is still a bug (you seemed to be
saying the bug was fixed, but you weren't sure how).

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.

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