asus-acpi: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality
authorThomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Fri, 1 Aug 2008 15:37:57 +0000 (17:37 +0200)
committerLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Sat, 8 Nov 2008 05:27:26 +0000 (00:27 -0500)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
drivers/misc/asus-laptop.c

index a9d5228724a6950d6e7cc42d70ab8ddfab2bdd05..8fb8b35910482dc796841a410f01b47c7db8736d 100644 (file)
@@ -1208,9 +1208,13 @@ static int __init asus_laptop_init(void)
 
        dev = acpi_get_physical_device(hotk->device->handle);
 
-       result = asus_backlight_init(dev);
-       if (result)
-               goto fail_backlight;
+       if (!acpi_video_backlight_support()) {
+               result = asus_backlight_init(dev);
+               if (result)
+                       goto fail_backlight;
+       } else
+               printk(ASUS_INFO "Brightness ignored, must be controlled by "
+                      "ACPI video driver\n");
 
        result = asus_led_init(dev);
        if (result)