Bug#702188: src:linux: [3.6 -> 3.7 regression] : Brightness control became ineffective
Le samedi 19 octobre 2013 à 21:14 +0100, Ben Hutchings a écrit :
> 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).
In fact that'd be to get some clarifications to know what commit fixed
(or at least inhibited) this issue in Linux 3.11, and therefore what
about the purpose of commit cb7a386c6c25. I think I'll take the risk,
obviously I'll drop you from the Cc list as I know that you have more
important stuff to deal with.
>
> Ben.
>
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